
Class X)^:K1— 
Book ^bi^OAs. 



Andover, Massachusetts 

in the 

World War 



Edited by 
CLAUDE M. FUESS, Post Historian 



Published by the Town of Andover under the Auspices of 

Andover Post, Number Eight, American Legion 



THE ANDOVER PRESS 
1921 



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UBRARY OF CONCit^ESS 

MAY 18 1922 




THE ANDOVER PRESS 
AN DOVER, MASS. 



There is a Hand that bends our deeds 
To mightier issues than we planned; 

Each son that triumphs, each that bleeds, 
My country, serves Its dark command. 



PREFACE 

SHORTLY after hostilities against Germany had been formally opened in the 
United States, a well-known lecturer, speaking at Phillips Academy, de- 
livered an address on the subject "What the War will do toAndover." His 
forecasts, as it happened, were usually correct, although sometimes oddly mis- 
taken. But now, fortunately, we can rely on history rather than on prophecy; 
and from the narratives and recollections of those who were participants, it is pos- 
sible to tell the story of what the World War actually did do to one fairly repre- 
sentative New England community. It will be found, I think, that the town 
presents, of course on a much reduced scale, a picture of what happened through- 
out the country; that the smaller unit was susceptible, like the larger, to the same 
psychological waves; and that the effects of the war may, therefore, be studied 
with profit here in a cross-section as well as on the gigantic stage of the nation. 

A further motive of this book, somewhat remote yet not altogether disso- 
ciated from the first, is to preserve for posterity the achievements of the men and 
women, who, in Andover, helped to maintain the fine traditions of our past. In 
this recent struggle, as in no other conflict of modern times, the entire state was 
mobilized. It was a battle between armies, but also between peoples. The hand 
of the War God reached into many an isolated "Gopher Prairie" and dragged the 
young men forth into unaccustomed environments and adventures; it touched the 
child and the matron, the poverty-stricken and the opulent, the loyal and the in- 
different; it changed everyone's mode of living, and visibly modified the face of 
the world. Naturally, then, there is almost no one who did not have some share 
in the victory, and who, consequently, is not interested in the tale of what was 
accomplished. Such an account, for our community, this volume aims to give. 
I am deeply indebted to several gentlemen who have had, through their long 
and intimate association with the town, far better information than I, unassisted, 
could possibly have commanded. If the volume has any merit, this is due mainly 
to Mr. George A. Christie, the local correspondent of the Lawrence Tribune, 
without whose aid it could not have been carried through to completion. He has 
been untiring and unselfish in his assistance, and has saved me from many a 
serious blunder. To Mr. George Dick, Mr. Markham W. Stackpole, and Mr. 
Bartlett H. Hayes, each of whom has read portions of the manuscript, I owe a 
large obligation. Among the many others who have helped me with their con- 
tributions and criticisms are Mrs. Bartlett H. Hayes, Miss Elizabeth Smith, Miss 
Anna S. Kuhn, Mr. Frederick H. Jones, Mr. J. Duke Smith, Mr. Burton S. Flagg, 
Dr. Peirson S. Page, Mr. Frederick G. Moore, Mr, Henry C. Sanborn, Miss 
Bertha Bailey, Miss Jane Carpenter, Mr. Alfred L. Ripley, Mr.John H. Mc- 
Donald, Mr. David L. Coutts, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lewis, Mrs. Gordon R. 
Cannon, Miss Ethel Hitchcock, Miss Dorothy Cutler, Mr. Horace M. Poyn- 
ter,and Mrs.Fuess. Finally I wish to express here my gratitude to the Honorable 
John N. Cole, who has given liberally of his counsel, and has done his best to 
make the volume, in its form and typography, worthy of the town. 

C. M. F. 



CONTENTS 



Preface 

I The Spirit of the Town .... 

II The Glorious Dead ..... 

III The Andover Committee of Public Safety 

IV The Liberty Loan Campaigns 

V The Thrift and War Savings Stamps Campaign 

VI The Work of the Red Cross 

VII The Legal Advisory Board .... 

VIII The Lowell-Andover Battery 

IX The British and Canadians in the World War 

X The Schools in the War .... 

XI Miscellaneous Organizations 

XII Andover Post, Number Eight, American Legion 
The Roll of those in Service 



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Comrade E. Kendall Jenkins, (">. A. R., presents a standard t<» Commander P. W. 

Thomson, Anchjver Post, No. cS, American Legion 

Andover, Septemlier 6, 1919 



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The Town of Andover in the World War 



THE SPIRIT OF THE TOWN 

"From this day forward we shall know 
That in ourselves our safety must be sought; 
That by our own right hands it must be wrought, 
That we must stand unpropped, or be laid low." 

OF' those residentsof Andover who, on the sunny morning of June 30. 1914, 
glanced at the unimpressive newspaper headhnes announcing the assas- 
sination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, not one had the 
faintest premonition of its tragic consequences. Here, as in Boston or Chicago or 
Denver, people on their way to work passed indifferently over the brief paragraph 
which told of the crime, and then turned the page to the baseball scores or the 
weather predictions, — possibly to the latest reports from Ulster or from Mexico 
or from the Caillaux trial. We had never, as a people, been very much agitated 
by the disasters of foreign dynasties; and Serajevo seemed very faraway. Yet in 
less than four years, Yankee boys by the thousands were to be billeted in European 
countries, shedding their blood upon the soil of France. — all because of the 
spark which, on that momentous summer day, was set to the powder magazine of 
international politics. 

For some weeks, however, all was comparatively calm. The serenity of the 
vacation period was undisturbed. Then, as July drew to a close, war clouds began 
to gather, and, when August opened, the storm was bursting upon an astonished 
world. The breach between Austria and Serbia, widening rapidly, involved 
Germany and Russia, and then France. And when, on August 4. Great Britain, 
righteously indignant at the German invasion of neutral Belgium, joined forces 
with France and Russia, Andover, like every other American community, was 
made aware of the terror which Europe was facing. 

It would be inaccurate to assert that the s\Tnpathies of all Andover citizens 
were, from the beginning, actively on the side of the Allies. President Woodrow 
Wilson, on August 18, issued the customary formal declaration of our neutrality, 
and many persons, — probably the majority, — approved his course. But the 
rush of German hordes into a helpless adjacent state met with the instinctive re- 
sentment of thoughtful men. In Andover, too, there was the additional fact 
that there were many families of English and Scotch birth and ancestry, to whom 

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12 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

their "ain countree" was very dear. Before Christmas, 1914, they were getting 
letters from their British relatives and friends, bringing news of these who had 
gone with the "first hundred thousand," some of whom had already died nobly in 
attempting to stem the tide of grey-uniformed Prussians who were pouring into 
Northern France, and who, but for British determination, French tenacity, and 
what now seems like the miraculous intervention of destiny, might actually have 
looted Paris. 

Even in those early months there were young men who left Andover to enlist 
with the Canadians or with the Highlanders, — men who felt, with Joyce Kilmer, 

"What matters Death if Freedom be not dead? 
No flags are fair if Freedom's flag be furled." 

David Waldie, a veteran of the Boer War, lost little time in crossing to England 
and rejoining the service, and was with the British Expeditionary Forces until the 
close of the conflict. Norman McLeish, hardly more than a boy, joined the 
Gordon Highlanders in the autumn of 1914, and, after many startling adventures 
"by flood and field," came back safe and sound in April, 1919. Both were members 
of Clan Johnston, an organization which, before the war ended, was to have thirty- 
eight members in uniform. Of the six who enlisted with the British, three were 
killed in action, one was wounded, gassed, and crippled for life, one was gassed and 
decorated with the Distinguished Courage Medal, and one came through unscathed. 

Americans heard of these exploits with admiration; but there were few who 
suspected that the United States was likely to be involved in the same struggle. 
Some Andoverians, caught abroad among the belligerents, came home with tales 
of annoyance and privation. The gruesome reports of German atrocities in Bel- 
gium horrified us, although there were not wanting cynics who contented them- 
selves with muttering "War is War!" The Imperial War Zone Proclamation of 
February 18, 1915, did, however, give Americans some conception of what might 
soon happen to our citizens upon the high seas; and the sinking of the Liisitania, 
on May 7 of that year, off the south coast of Ireland, with its destruction of inno- 
cent lives, was revealed at once as an act of unforgivable infamy. 

We do not wish to boast for our town any exceptional intelligence or sensitive- 
ness to injustice. But Andover has been by tradition a seat of learning, whose in- 
habitants have always been quickly responsive to the claims of any worthy cause. 
Nowhere have moral issues found more valiant champions. It is not surprising, 
then, that, by the spring of 1915, the sentiment of the community was no longer 
unbiased. There were as yet no public gatherings to rebuke submarine warfare; 
there were no newspaper articles assailing the Kaiser; but around many a fireside 
there was plain talk, in words that were by no means temperate. 

It was indubitably this ruthless attack on the Lusitania that aroused our public 
opinion to a correct conception of our relation to the European conflict. Count 
BernstorfT himself has said : — 



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"The Lusitania incident first brought home to the United States the horrors 
of war, and convinced all her people that a flagrant injury had been done them." 

For a few days, indeed, it seemed impossible to avert a break in the diplo- 
matic relations of the two countries. But the interchange of notes recommenced, 
and the critical moment was passed without action. On May 10 the President de- 
livered in Philadelphia his still unforgotten address in which he used the unfor- 
tunate words "too proud to fight." Nevertheless there was, after the Lusitania 
disaster, a persistent war party in the United States, made up of those who were 
ready to cry, — 

"Oh, England, at the smoking trenches dying 

For all the world. 
Our hearts beat as we watch your flag flying 
While ours is furled." 

The sympathy which was felt for the Allies was expressed in many ways. At 
Christmas, in 1915, Andover sent one hundred pounds to the soldiers of Brechin, 
Scotland, the town from which so many of our citizens had originally come; and 
Miss Mary Byers Smith a few months later forwarded to Scotland a large sum 
which had been collected for that country's "ain laddies." 

The sinking of the Arabic on August 19 and of the Ancona on November 7 
helped to keep Americans conscious of the danger which they were facing. The 
new word "preparedness", made popular in the spring of 1915 by Colonel Theo- 
dore Roosevelt and General Leonard Wood, was on everybody's lips, and people 
were paying heed to what these patriots recommended in the way of sane pre- 
caution. The President himself, in his annual message of December, 1915, 
seemed apprehensive and called for "preparedness" measures. 

The culmination of several additional indignities came in March, 1916, with 
the tidings of the sinking of the Sussex. President Wilson's patience at last ex- 
hausted, he sent, on April 18, a strong note, warning Germany that, unless sub- 
marine warfare against passenger and freight-carrying vessels was immediately 
abandoned, the United States would have no choice but "to sever diplomatic 
relations with the German Empire altogether." In Andover, as in most parts of 
the eastern states, the tone of this threat was heartily approved. The result of 
its firmness was shown on May 4, when Germany gave a solemn assurance that 
"merchant vessels shall not be sunk without warning and without saving human 
lives, unless those ships attempt to escape or offer resistance." 

It was during the following summer that the Plattsburg Training Camps, 
which had been conducted in an inconspicuous manner for some years, first began 
to exercise a perceptible influence on the thought of the nation. As a consequence 
of an appeal for volunteer enlistment, many of the more virile young men took the 
course in military instruction, among them several from Andover, including Mr. 
Markham W. Stackpole, Mr. Bartlett H. Hayes, Dr. Peirson S. Page, Mr. Frank 
L. Quinby, Mr. J . Duke Smith, Mr. Philip W.Thomson, and Mr. Horace M . Poynter. 



14 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

On their return these gentlemen brought with them a knowledge of our military 
weakness which made them leaders in urging the government to make definite 
preparations for an emergency. The Plattsburg Camps really marked an im- 
portant forward step in our progress towards war. 

Most of us will recall that summer as the period when the American public 
was being educated regarding possible war contingencies. It was the time, al- 
ready passed into history, when everybody was reading Ian Hay's The First Hun- 
dred Thousand, Baroness Huard's My Home on the Field of Honor, the anonymous 
T Accuse, Alan Seeger's " I have a Rendezvous ivith Death'', and the poems of the 
gallant Rupert Brooke. American boys in the Ambulance Service in France, — 
like Mr. J. Radford Abbot, of Andover, — were sending letters to their people. 
Major Marlborough Churchill, another native of Andover, had been sent abroad 
in January, 1916, as Military Observer with the French armies, and his own and 
Mrs. Churchill's experiences were told freely among their friends at home. All 
these influences, and others which there is no space to mention, were having a 
share in moulding American sentiment against Germany. 

Indeed, when Dr. Hugh Cabot, on November 27, spoke in the Phillips Acad- 
emy Chapel, denouncing our policy of neutrality and calHng for our aid in behalf 
of Great Britain and France, he received an ovation. Madame Dupriez and her 
husband, at a mass meeting in the Town Hall, told the sad story of Belgian depor- 
tations to an audience which was moved to tears. The huge Allied Bazaar in 
Boston during December aroused the interest of all New England. It has some- 
times been maintained that all these anti-German movements were the conse- 
quence of scientific British propaganda; but, so far as Andover is concerned, this 
theory is unjustified. The feeling which was developing against Germany was 
spontaneous and unorganized ; it sprang up in many minds at once, like one of 
those impulses so common in mob psychology. Americans were at last learning 
the truth, and the response was what might have been expected. 

President Woodrow Wilson, meanwhile, had been reelected, very largely on 
the platform "He kept us out of War!", which, it must be confessed, was not popu- 
lar in Andover. Still hoping to avoid hostilities, he issued his message of Decem- 
ber 18, 1916, to all the warring powers, calling for "peace without victory". 
Not unnaturally, those who believed that France and her Allies were fighting in a 
just cause against the forces of evil, were much chagrined. 

But the German High Command was bound to go the road to ruin. On the 
last day of January, Count BernstorfT, as he admits, reluctantly, announced that 
his government had resolved to resume submarine warfare, thus taking back the 
freedom of action reserv^ed in her note of May 4, 1918, and also deHberately defy- 
ing the American warning of April 18, 1916. Even Bernstorff could see that this 
unreasoning act would turn the President against Germany. The official publi- 
cation of the German note was followed by intense indignation throughout the 
United States. Mr. Wilson, three days later, took the obvious course of severing 



THE SPIRIT OF THE TOWN 15 

diplomatic relations, and public sentiment flamed to white heat. The "Zimmer- 
man Note," given to the press on February 28, exposed the full extent of German 
duplicity. At the same time the Russian Revolution, marking the collapse of one 
of England's allies, made Americans reahze that their aid, if proff'ered at all, must 
be sent soon if the world were to be saved from the menace of Prussianism. 

The "overt act" awaited by the President was not long delayed. In March 
arrived reports that the City of Memphis, the Illinois, and the Vigilancia had 
been sunk by German submarines, and Congress was at once summoned for a 
special session. During the ominous days which ensued, every patriot knew what 
to expect, — and what to hope for. In Andover, as at the most remote cross- 
roads, the question on men's Hps was invariably "How soon?" or "When?" 
From the minute that Congress assembled on April 2, it was evident that action 
would not be long delayed. Finally, on April 6, after the passage of a joint resolu- 
tion by the Senate and the House of Representatives, President Wilson proclaimed 
that a "state of war exists between the United States and the Imperial German 
Government". Henry Van Dyke then voiced the emotions of a united nation^ 
when he wrote : — 

"O dearest country of my heart, home of the high desire, 
Make clean thy soul for sacrifice on Freedom's altar-fire." 

In Andover, the citizens had, for at least some weeks before the actual 
declaration, grown accustomed to the thought of war. Education had done its 
work. In those winter months of 1917 we heard Captain Ian Hay Beith tell the 
dramatic story of England's battle for humanity; we listened, deeply moved, to 
Madame Huard's plea for suffering France; we were thrilled by D. Brewer Eddy's 
story of his experiences with "Kitchener's Mob." PhilHps Academy, faithful to 
its ancient heritage, had decided on March 1, after an enthusiastic mass-meeting, 
to take up military training in all seriousness; and the boys, by April 6, were 
already in uniform, and were familiar, not only with "Squads Right!" but with 
the more intricate evolutions of company formation. At the annual town meeting, 
on March 5, the citizens adopted unanimously the following resolutions, proposed 
by Bartlett H. Hayes and seconded by John Traynor: — 

"Whereas the Imperial German Government has, as the President has said, 
forbidden to our people the exercise of their peaceful and legitimate errands on 
the high seas, and whereas, in consequence, the President of the United States has 
severed diplomatic relations with Germany, 

" Resolved, by the citizens of Andover, assembled in Town Meeting ; this fifth r 
day of March, 1917, 

1. That they commend the President for his uncompromising stand ia 
severing diplomatic relations. 



16 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

2. That they rely upon the President to protect American citizens and the 
American ships upon the high seas. 

3. That they decry the mortifying and unpatriotic action of certain United 
States Senators in faiUng to adopt legislation necessary for the protection of the 
safety and honor of the American people. 

4. That while they desire peace, they desire peace only with honor, and call 
upon the President to uphold at this time the honor of the American people." 

These spirited words recall the resolves drafted in 1774 by Samuel Phillips, 
Jr., pledging the town of Andover to the support of the Provincial Congress against 
Great Britain, and also the address presented by a group of Andover citizens in 
1798 to President John Adams, at a time when our amicable relations with France 
seemed Hkely to be interrupted. The resolutions of 1917 were in every way worthy 
of the fine Andover traditions, and they were telegraphed at once to the White 
House. There was a high seriousness of purpose in the hearts of men. Flags began 
to appear in \^dndows along the streets, and to fly out from newly-raised staffs. 
It wanted only the President's ringing phrases of April 6 to set in motion war 
measures which had been contemplated at private gatherings for many days. 
Then at last we could say of our new AlHes : — 

"We are one with them — we rise 
With dawning thunder in our eyes 
To join the embattled hosts that kept 
Their pact with freedom while we slept." 

It was indeed inspiring to watch the town of Andover mobilizing for the 
emergency, and to see the citizens, putting aside their personal business and re- 
sponding uncomplainingly to the need of the hour. The Selectmen, quick to realize 
their responsibility, appointed a Committee of Public Safety, composed of thirty 
representative men, with power to assume all necessary authority. It was this 
Committee which, while the younger men were bearing arms, mobilized the 
civilian resources of the town, and the labor which they performed was in the 
highest degree praiseworthy. Ser\4ng throughout the war period, they gave both 
time and money to promote every form of public welfare. Too old for energetic 
military drill and the strain of army life, they devoted themselves to the no less 
essential problem of making the town an effective cooperating unit behind the 
lines. It is to their credit that Andover never weakened in 7norale, — that it did 
not fail in a single patriotic enterprise, and that its escutcheon was unstained by 
any word or act of disloyalty. 

From the Committee of Public Safety, with the Honorable John N. Cole as 
Chairman, came the incentive and the guidance for most of the war work within 
the town. The members met for the first time on the evening of April 6, the date 
of the declaration of hostilities. The larger group being evidently somewhat un- 
wieldy for the promotion of expeditious business, an Executive Committee of 



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Fifteen was at once appointed to take up the actual supervision of operations; and, 
in order to divide the burden, several smaller separate committees were chosen to 
direct specific forms of labor. A Finance Committee, with Mr. Alfred L. Ripley 
as Chairman, was occupied with the vital matter of securing funds, and, through 
the device of membership subscriptions, soon obtained a sufficient amount to 
guarantee the necessary expenses. A Committee on Food Production and Conser- 
vation, under Mr. Frederick H. Jones, took up the problems involved in stim- 
ulating the cultivation of gardens and the careful use and preserving of food stuffs. 
A Home Guard Committee, headed by Mr. Bartlett H. Hayes, was concerned 
with the organization of a military company of older men for duty during possible 
local emergencies. Am.ong the other groups were a Health Committee, which, 
directed by Dr. Charles E. Abbott, laid plans for preventing and treating disease; 
a Local Survey Committee, with Mr. John H. Campion as Chairman, authorized 
to investigate, classify, and coordinate the resources of the town; a Volunteer Aid 
Committee, headed by Mr. Burton S. Flagg, which was to be ready to give proper 
attention to needy cases arising out of war conditions; and a Committee on Advice 
to Aliens, under Mr. William C. Crowley, which was to handle all matters involv- 
ing our small foreign population. In the course of a few days all these committees 
were effectively organized and ready for duty. 

The Committee of Public Safety neglected nothing that might contribute to 
the success of its extensive program. A flag-raising at the Andover Press Building 
on April 14 was turned into a patriotic demonstration, to which the Phillips Acad- 
emy Battalion marched in military formation, looking very trim in their new 
khaki uniforms and parading with the skill of veterans. In order to stir the loyalty 
of the citizens, a mass meeting was called at the Town Hall on the evening of Sun- 
day, April 15. Mr. Cole presided, and the three speakers touched upon different 
phases of the war spirit. The Honorable Guy A. Ham, of Boston, dealt with the 
impelling motives which had led our nation reluctantly to take up arms; Mr. Fred 
A. Smith, Director of the Essex Agricultural School, treated of some practical 
matters connected with the plans for an increased food production ; and Principal 
Alfred E. Stearns, of PhilHps Academy, in an address full of impassioned idealism, 
prophesied the testing which our institutions were bound to confront in the trying 
days to come. As an indication of unity of purpose and sternness of resolve, the 
gathering was notable in the town annals. There was no evidence of boastfulness 
or over-confidence; every one spoke with seriousness and solemnity, in a full con- 
sciousness of the sacrifices which would soon be demanded. 

Indeed America, from the Atlantic to the far Pacific, was fast comprehending 
what its task was to be. War, that "great corrector of enormous times", had 
healed local jealousies and brought us a singleness of aim. Inspired by a sense 
of imminent danger, the nation was every^w^here astir. Enlistments in the Na- 
tional Guard and the state militia were increasing day by day. The Council of 
National Defense, at Washington, had taken up its duties with energy. On June 5 



18 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

nearly ten million men registered for selective military service. By June 15 the 
First Liberty Loan of two billion dollars had been carried through successfully. 
What Andover as a town had done was undertaken the country over, wherever 
there was a cluster of houses to make a settlement. A righteous war, with all its 
accompanying evils, brings out some of the noblest qualities in humanity; and 
that our war was righteous no one in Andover was inclined to doubt. 

It was this confidence in the justice of our cause which led men to do then 
gladly what in normal times would have seemed almost impossible. When, for 
instance, the call was issued for the formation of a Home Guard Unit, on Monday, 
April 16, sixty-six candidates enrolled. Twice a week these men, all of them very 
busy, most of them over forty years of age, and some nearing three-score, assem- 
bled in the Phillips Academy Gymnasium for setting-up exercises and infantry 
drill. Under their first commander. Captain Edgar L. Holt, they made remarkable 
progress; and when Captain Holt received his promotion to a majority in the State 
Guard, his former position was filled admirably by Captain Peirson S. Page of 
Phillips Academy. Early in July, 1917, the Andover Company was mustered into 
the service of the Commonwealth, at first as Company 114 of the 16th Regiment, 
and later as Company H, Second Battalion, of the same Regiment, the other 
companies in the battalion having been recruited from Reading, Lawrence, and 
Methuen. Now and then some of the younger members withdrew to enter the 
National Army, and one, Charles A. Young, was the first Andover boy with the 
American forces to be killed in action in France. The Andover Company, how- 
ever, remained a unit throughout the war period. During the influenza epidemic 
it was called out and fulfilled faithfully two weeks of duty at Emery Hill Hos- 
pital, in Lawrence. Not until some months after the armistice was the company 
disbanded, its members the richer for an experience which had tried their physical 
endurance, proved their persistence, and left them with a feeling of pride in gen- 
uine accomplishment. 

An interesting incident helped to demonstrate our nearness to our Allies in the 
old world. On May 28 the Mayor of Andover, England, sent to the "chief citi- 
zen" of our American Andover the following courteous letter: 

Dear Sir, — 

The Mayor of Andover sends to you and to the inhabitants of your town the 
fraternal greetings of the Burgesses of this ancient Borough, upon the entry of America 
in this war of liberty against a military slavery. 

Yours faithfully, 

F. W. Bingham, Mayor 

In reply, Mr. Harry M. Fames, Chairman of our Board of Selectmen, said: 

Dear Sir, — ■ 

Your most welcome letter received, and on behalf of the citizens of Andover, Mass- 
achusetts, we extend to you and through you to the citizens of old Andover, England, our 
most hearty greetings, and assure you that the spirit of patriotism to do her part in ending 



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this cruel and barbarous war that disgraces the whole civilized world animates our whole 
town, men, women, and children. Our boys are enlisting, our people are contributing, our 
various committees are so in accord that your namesake here has the proud record of 
being second to no city and town in Massachusetts in the progress we have made in pre- 
paredness. 

Fraternally yours, 

Harry M. Eames, Chairman 

Of the activities to which Mr. Eames referred, only a brief mention can be 
made in this preHminary summary. On Memorial Day, 1917, the town paid 
special honor to the veterans of the Civil War, who, more than half a century be- 
fore, had represented Andover in another conflict. For the first time the Home 
Guard appeared in public review, the comment aroused by their marching being 
most favorable. In the Town Hall Dr. Claude M. Fuess delivered the oration, 
laying stress on the inspiration to be drawn from the notable example set by the 
soldiers of 1861. On June 14, under the auspices of the Woman's Relief Corps, 
Flag Day was appropriately observed, with an eloquent address by the Honorable 
John N. Cole. The Phillips Academy Commencement, always attended by many 
townspeople, was marked by the proud announcement of Principal Stearns that 
an Andover Ambulance Unit was already overseas. On this occasion, too, a tall 
flagstaff was raised on the historic training field, where, a century and a half 
ago, the Andover militia were accustomed to drill, and where General George 
Washington, sitting on horseback, was welcomed in 1789 by the citizens of 
the town. 

We were told frequently in those days that food would win the war, and the 
statement was not far from the truth. The Committee on Food Production and 
Conservation lost no time in arranging its plans. Vacant areas of land were se- 
cured and divided into small garden plots, which were assigned to those who re- 
quired them. Seed potatoes and fertilizer, purchased in large quantities, were dis- 
pensed at cost. Mr. Herbert B. Nash was engaged as Supervisor, and was estab- 
lished in an office where he could be freely consulted by prospective agricultur- 
ists. Meanwhile information on every phase of farming was given wide publicity. 
People were advised when to hoe and when to spray; how to escape and exter- 
minate pests; what to do to preserve vegetables and fruits. A crop census for the 
first year disclosed an extraordinary increase in productiveness over the previous 
summer. As the war went on, the program of the Committee enlarged. In 1918 a 
Food Center was opened in Mr. McDonald's store on Essex Street, where various 
ladies took charge and gave frequent demonstrations of jelly making, cold pack- 
ing, and home canning. Week after week the women labored incessantly in the 
kitchen of the Punchard School, under the direction of Mrs. James J. Feeney and 
Mrs. Bernard M. Allen, preserving fruit and vegetables to "help Hoover". 
Through the spring and summer of 1918 Mr. William C. Coutts acted as Super- 
visor in place of Mr. Nash, who had entered the army. Plowing and planting has 
about it Httle of the "pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war"; but it was 



20 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

most essential, and many an elderly gentleman "did his bit " with real fortitude in 
his garden plot during hot August days. 

In finance, as well as in agriculture, people were learning rapidly and adjust- 
ing themselves to changed conditions. War demands not only food and men, but 
money, and the Committee for the First Liberty Loan had to study and put into 
operation methods of advertising on a large scale which had seldom before been 
considered. The Liberty Loan Committee for Andover and North Andover was 
organized on Saturday, May 19, with Mr. Nathaniel Stevens as Chairman, Mr. 
Alfred L. Ripley as Vice-Chairman, and Mr. Chester W. Holland as Secretary. 
Much of the active work in Andover itself was conducted by Mr. Burton S. Flagg, 
as Campaign Manager, under whose skilful direction captains and lieutenants were 
appointed, and an effective method devised of bringing the appeal to the notice 
of the general public. The First Liberty Loan Campaign, which opened on May 
25 and closed on June 15, was in many respects experimental: but, as a conse- 
quence of thorough preparation and careful canvassing, the district subscribed 
an official total of $434,250, from 1931 persons. As the district allotment was only 
$400,000, there could be no doubt that Andover and North Andover had done 
their share in providing for the expenses of the war. 

On a smaller scale, but in a no less important way, the American Red Cross 
had been preparing for the emergency, and the Andover Branch, first under Mrs. 
Bartlett H. Hayes, as Chairman, and later under her successor, Mr. Alfred L. 
Ripley, accomplished extraordinary things. The nation-wide campaign for the 
Red Cross War Fund of $100,000,000, carried on during the latter part of June, re- 
sulted in contributions of over $5000 from residents of the town. But the raising 
of money was only a small part of the achievement. Even before we joined the 
Allies, the Red Cross members had been making surgical dressings and knitted 
garments on certain days at the Guild and the November Club House; and, soon 
after our Declaration of War, the November Club offered its rooms to these work- 
ers for the duration of hostilities. There, under the supervision of Mrs. Hayes, 
Mrs. Markham W. Stackpole, and Miss Elizabeth Smith, a large quantity of val- 
uable material was prepared for the benefit of^the sick and wounded. By October 
19, over 6000 separate articles had been made and sent to soldiers; more than 7000 
surgical dressings had been forwarded to headquarters; and, of the $2700 which 
had been raised for the work, $1700 had been expended. These figures are signi- 
ficant mainly as showing what can be accomplished by a small group of devoted 
women, laboring unostentatiously and unselfishly for a noble cause. 

In the last analysis, however, war is a fighting game, and the burden and heat 
of the day must be borne by the men in uniform. It is they who endure the hor- 
rors of the dug-outs and trenches, who risk their lives in action, who suffer and 
who sacrifice the most. Already a score of Andover citizens were enrolled in the 
British and Canadian forces, and three of the best-known, Private William Pert, 
Sergeant James Cavan, and Lance Corporal William Rae, all of the British 




William Pert 

Private, Black Watch, British Army 

Killed in action, September 25, 1916 

The first man from Andover to give his life 

in the World War 



[22] 



THESPIRITOFTHETOWN 23 

Army, had been killed, — finding "a field of death on the field of flame." 
Now, when American units were being formed, the same eagerness for voluntary 
enlistment was displayed. On April 13, 1917, when recruits for the Massachusetts 
National Guard were being sought, fourteen Andover boys joined the Lowell 
Battery, and others followed rapidly. When the R. C. O. A. held, on July 12, a 
reception for those of its members in service, it was reported that eighteen out 
of forty-seven had already signed up. It was this little group who enrolled in 
the Lowell Battery, — later Battery F of the 2d Massachusetts Field Artillery, 
— who were among the earliest Andover men in the American Army to see actual 
combat. The contingent gradually grew larger. When, on July 18, the women of 
the South Church gave a reception to the Andover boys in the Battery, there 
were twenty-eight present, including Lieutenant Markham W. Stackpole, who 
had just received his commission as Regimental Chaplain. The entrainment of 
these men for Camp Curtis Guild, at Boxford, was the occasion of an ovation. 
More than a thousand people gathered at the railroad station to say farewell, and 
wish them "God-speed!" as they departed for "the greatest war in history." 

At their quarters in Boxford, these boys were so near that they could be fre- 
quently visited by friends, eager to bring them comforts and luxuries. The Wo- 
men's Relief Corps, of which Mrs. Charles S. Buchan was the efficient head, had 
provided each Andover soldier with a comfort kit ; and there were other generous 
workers who did their best to see that no one was neglected. For some weeks the 
troops remained in camp, preparing for the trip overseas. On August 5, when 
"Lowell and Andover Day " was observed with appropriate games and ceremonies, 
hundredsof Andover citizens went over the road to see how the boys were getting on. 
Then came the news, spread surreptitiously, that they were soon to embark for 
Europe. Mysterious tales circulated among the families of the soldiers. When the 
hour came, however, the regiment simply folded up its tents Hke the Arabs and 
silently stole away. It was learned many weeks afterward that the 26th, or Yan- 
kee Division, had arrived in France on October 5, and that, within almost exactly 
six months after our entrance into the war, an American division composed of 
volunteer soldiers was equipped and on French soil. It was exceedingly rapid 
progress for a republic unused to military methods. 

The unprecedented task of raising a citizen army by means of the operation 
of the Selective Service Act was, by this time, beyond the stage of a mere experi- 
ment. On June 5, when the registration of all men between the ages of twenty- 
one and thirty-one was ordered, 609 of Andover's residents were placed on the 
list. On July 15 took place that historic scene in Washington when the drawing of 
the draft numbers commenced. The names of those in Andover's first quota were 
published as early as August 10, and they reported promptly at Georgetown, the 
headquarters for the district, to be examined. As had been anticipated, many 
failed in the physical tests, and others, for various reasons, claimed and secured 
exemption; it took, therefore, a considerable length of time to make the necessary 



24 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

readjustments. On the morning of Friday, October 5, however, the sixty-five men 
included in Andover's allotment left for Camp Devens. The day was raw, rainy, 
and cold, but the townspeople turned out, indifferent to weather conditions, to 
watch them entrain. Headed by Company H, 16th Massachusetts State Guard, a 
parade, hastily arranged but including the Civil and Spanish War veterans, the 
children of the public and parochial schools, and the Phillips Academy Battalion, 
marched to the playstead, where brief addresses were delivered by Judge Hayes, of 
Ipswich, and the late Selectman Harry M. Eames. The procession then moved 
on to the railroad station, where, in the chill and mist, refreshments were provided 
for the recruits and last "Good-byes" were spoken. Not even the depressing at- 
mospheric conditions could detract from the significance of the assemblage. The 
town was behind her sons, ready to defend and support them. 

It was about this period that the Lawrence Tribune and the Andover Towns- 
man began the patriotic service of printing lists of Andover men in the army, navy, 
and marines. One early Roll of Honor, published on September 28, 1917, was 
comparatively short, containing fewer than two hundred names, headed, however, 
by Lieutenant-Colonel Marlborough Churchill, and including eight in the Ca- 
nadian Army and ten with the British Expeditionary Forces. Through the fall and 
winter the list gradually lengthened. A volunteer committee, consisting of Mr. 
George Dick, Mr. Ernest King, and Mr. Fred L. Collins, kindly took charge of 
providing service flags for the family of each Andover soldier or sailor. The first 
such flag in Andover was hung out, it is said, at the home of John L. Morrison, on 
Elm Street, in honor of his son Lieutenant (later Captain) PhilHps G. Morrison; 
but soon no street was without a window in which was not one of those significant 
red and white banners, with the blue star. There were several families entitled to 
two stars; at least five, — those of Messrs. Cheever, Dugan, Early, Gray, and 
Moore, — could boast of three; and one, that of Mr. and Mrs. John Nicoll, of 
Cuba Street, was entitled to four stars, one son being in the British Navy and 
three with the American troops. This Service Star, or Comfort, Committee 
was constantly doing for the boys 

" Little nameless unremembered acts 
Of kindness and of love". 

It regularly sent packages of cigarettes to Andover men in the training camps; it 
seemed to have "inside information" about special needs, and took special pains 
to meet them ; indeed it was always busy, in a modest and helpful way. For these 
attentions the soldiers were deeply grateful, as many a letter of appreciation indi- 
cated. 

While these young men were joining the fighting forces, the Second Liberty 
Loan of three billion dollars was being successfully completed, through the same 
Committee which had before carried on the campaign in the Andover and North 
Andover district. The quota assigned was $672,000, approximately $50 for each 



THE SPIRIT OF THE TOWN 25 

man, woman, and child in the two towns. Through a system which divided An- 
dover into seven districts, each with a captain and Heutenants, every household 
was covered; and, at the conclusion of the "drive, " Mr. Flagg was able to report 
that $1,249,950 had been subscribed. It was a moment when such liberality was 
needed. As the campaign was drawing to a close in late October, the first Ameri- 
can gun was fired from the trenches toward the German lines, and, on November 
3, three heroic Americans lost their lives in action. From that date on, we were to 
get our taste of the dire reality of war, and no one was allowed to slacken in his 
efforts to win the victory. 

Indeed for those who remained at home there were many worthy causes which 
could claim support. In the late autumn of 1917 the Red Triangle War Work 
Fund for the maintenance of the work of the Young Men's Christian Association 
here and overseas was started. Mr. Frederick H. Jones, the Andover Chairman, 
organized an intensive campaign which brought in more than $15,000, an amount 
far exceeding the quota originally suggested. Following this came the Red Cross 
"membership drive," under the direction of the Reverend Frank R. Shipman. It 
opened on Sunday, December 15, with an enthusiastic mass meeting, at which 
Judge Michael J. Murray, of Boston, was the principal speaker. Before it closed, 
Andover, whose quota was 1840 members, actually secured 3150. These two cam- 
paigns were illustrations of the almost phenomenal results which persistent and 
forceful leadership can accomplish in a loyal community. 

As the year drew to an end, the PubHc Safety Committee published a formal 
report, giving an account of its varied activities. The Finance Committee at this 
time showed receipts from voluntary contributions amounting to more than $4200, 
in addition to which there was at least $3300 which had been pledged but not yet 
called for. The total expenditures up to Christmas had not exceeded $2100. The 
other committees also told briefly of their work, the character and results of which 
were in every way creditable to the community. What the Committee of Public 
Safety had accomplished inspired the confidence and elicited the praise of their 
fellow-citizens. 

The winter of 1917-18 brought with it a taste of the economies which war re- 
quires, even from civilians. Coal was far from plentiful. The local Fuel Committee 
consisting of Mr. E. Barton Chapin (Chairman), Mr. Virgil D. Harrington, and 
Mr. Alexander Lamont, kept a close watch on conditions and did their utmost to 
satisfy complaints. Very few people, however, cared to protest, and the "heat- 
less days," from January 18 to 22, 1918, were accepted as merely preliminary to 
greater sacrifices. Everybody was far more concerned over the welfare of the 
Andover boys in France. It is unfortunate that space cannot be found in this vol- 
ume for some of the letters from the men of Battery F, which began to appear in 
the press in early November and were printed regularly until the war closed. Al- 
though the censor had deleted some of the more entertaining passages, enough 
usually remained to throw light on the experiences through which the soldiers had 



26 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

passed. It could easily be inferred that they were preparing to go to the front in 
the spring; and, knowing this, no one in his relatively comfortable home in Ando- 
ver was likely to object to necessary restrictions on his consumption of food or 
fuel. 

The coming of the new year found most Americans smitten with the convic- 
tion that the war was likely to be long and sanguinary. There was a change in the 
spirit of the nation, a change which was naturally reflected in every city and town. 
The first eagerness and impetuosity had given place to that steadiness and resig- 
nation which a lengthy struggle exacts of its participants. The response to ap- 
peals for money was no less immediate or generous; but people now realized what 
was ahead of them, and, with this knowledge, arranged their budgets and their ex- 
penditures accordingly. Nearly every person had discovered his or her niche in 
the national war machine; there was, consequently, less wasted eflfort and futile 
discussion. The grandeur and glory of the battle-field, too, had been almost for- 
gotten in the contemplation of its perils. With brothers and friends on the fighting 
line, we are not much interested in the decorative features of war. 

The tasks at home, however unromantic, were faithfully performed. The 
local Legal Advisory Board, under Mr. J. Duke Smith, began, in December, 1917, 
to assist registered men in filling out their questionnaires; and for many weeks 
members of that board met two or three times a week in the Town House, attend- 
ing to duties which were not spectacular but which were eminently useful. Early 
in 1918 the sale of War Savings and Thrift Stamps was started by a committee of 
which Mr. Frederick G. Moore was the Chairman. This Committee, in a per- 
sistent and effective way, was busy during the remainder of the war period, at the 
termination of which it announced that over $130,000 in War Savings and Thrift 
Stamps had been purchased in the town. Andover's record in this campaign was 
so good as to bring it special recognition. 

With the arrival of spring, the nation girded itself for a renewed and final 
effort. On April 6, exactly a year after the Declaration of War, the municipal 
service flag raised to commemorate the occasion bore 350 stars. At the accom- 
panying ceremonies Mr. Cole delivered a stirring appeal to the town, calling upon 
it, in the name of the Committee of Public Safety, to be ready to meet the crisis. 
He was justified in doing so. Stories, vivid and disillusioning, were being spread 
broadcast about the horror, the malignity, and the relentlessness of this war. 
The Yankee Division, in which so many Andover boys were serving, was ready 
for the advance, and, within a few weeks, the news of Cantigny and Chateau- 
Thierry was to show that these peace-loving and mild-mannered youngsters had 
borne themselves like seasoned regulars. Lists of casualties were soon to be given 
out in the newspapers. Mothers and wives and sweethearts passed day after day 
in anxious suspense. 

The appearance of the first gold service stars had brought a sense of solem- 
nity to the community, which, in turn, had its effect on war activities. The Third 




James Cavan 

Sergeant, British Army 

Killed in action, April 19, 1917 



[28 



THE SPIRIT OF THE TOWN 29 

Liberty Loan Campaign, arranged for April, 1918, was managed by And over and 
North Andover individually, our quota being $434,000. Under the direction of 
Mr. Flagg, the town produced a total of 2192 separate subscriptions, this being a 
larger number than in either of the two preceding "drives " ; and the sum turned in 
was approximately $600,000. The second Red Cross campaign, which took place 
in May, was Hkewise remarkably successful. It opened on May 20 with a parade 
in which more than three thousand people participated. It closed with a mass 
meeting on the evening of May 26, at which Mr. Alfred L. Ripley, President of 
the Andover Branch, presided, with Sergeant Edward B. Creed, of the 101st In- 
fantry, as the chief speaker. The Reverend Frank R. Shipman, who managed the 
campaign, reported at its close that Andover had raised nearly $22,000, its quota 
being only $8500. Next in order was an intensive "drive " for the sale of War Sav- 
ings Stamps, which was pushed through during the last week in June. On Sunday, 
June 23, at a gathering in the Town Hall, the famous "Shell-proof Mack" told 
of his startling adventures, and in the week which followed Mrs. Charles S. Bu- 
chan, as Chairman of a Women's Committee, canvassed the town, with most sat- 
isfactory results. Throughout these campaigns of the Red Cross and the War 
Savings Stamps Committee a group of "Four Minute Men" gave brief daily 
talks at the Colonial Theatre. Among those who volunteered in this work were 
Principal Stearns, Professor Forbes, Mr. Joseph L. Burns, Mr. WilHam C. 
Crowley, Mr. Nathan C. Hamblin, Major Davy (of the Canadian forces), 
and others. 

A mass meeting of exceptional interest, even in that period of almost daily 
public addresses, was one held on the evening of Sunday, June 30, with the object 
of getting recruits for Red Cross nursing in France. At this time the townspeople 
had an opportunity of hearing Mrs. Marlborough Churchill, whose relief enter- 
prises in Paris, before America entered the war, had won her such well-deserved 
commendation. A second speaker was Miss Elizabeth Ross, Director of the New 
England Division of Nursing. Professor Forbes was the presiding ofificer. 

And so spring drifted into summer, — the last summer of the war. On Ando- 
ver Hill, ordinarily so peaceful in the vacation period, the Trustees of Phillips 
Academy had instituted a military camp, opened primarily to train the younger 
men in preparation for possible army duties. Under Major Robert N. Davy and 
Captain Peirson S. Page the boys, clad in khaki, studied tactics and mastered the 
rudiments of discipline. The main campus was spotted with "pup tents," and 
guards stood sentry at the gates, always before open to every visitor. The notes of 
stirring Reveille sounded across the valley at day-break, and at evening the echoes 
of the more solemn Retreat brought "the eternal note of sadness in." 

The men of the town who had passed the age for uniforms and rifles were 
busy before breakfast and after supper in their gardens. There is no glamor in 
hoeing interminable rows of potatoes. There are days when it takes a kind of sub- 
Hme courage to weed beans. Probably there are many "dough-boys" who do 



30 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

not appreciate the kind of heroism, moral and physical, which was shown in 
many a back-yard garden under a burning sun in the August of 1918. 

The number of those still "at home" was rapidly diminishing. In April, 
1918, a fine young man in the British Expeditionary Forces, — Private David 
C. S. Croall, — was killed in action. On September 2, Private Charles A. Young, 
of Company B, 101st Infantry, 26th Division, died of wounds, he being the first 
Andover boy in the American Army to give his life for the Allied cause. Private 
Patrick O'Neil, of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces, was slain in action on 
August 27, and later in September Private Michael Joseph Daly, of Battery B, 
119th Field Artillery, died as a result of wounds received from a bursting shell. 
The news of these tragedies naturally cast a gloom over the community, and 
no one could tell who might be the next to fall. 

On Thursday, September 12, came the day of registration for all males be- 
tween the ages of eighteen and forty-five, who had not been included in the earlier 
enrollment. It was found that, in Andover, 937 new names were thus placed on 
the eligible list, which, moreover, did not include a considerable number who had 
already entered service. 

The autumn of 1918 was destined to put our nation to a new and severe test of 
endurance. It was lamentable enough to have our young men killed in action or 
suffering from painful wounds. But the great influenza epidemic, which broke out 
in September and which ravaged not only the training camps but also civilian 
homes, was the most terrible of calamities. Here was an unseen enemy, who de- 
scended upon men from unexpected quarters, without giving them even a chance to 
fight for life. Two of the Andover boys in service succumbed to the dread disease : 
Signalman Thomas W. Piatt, of the United States Navy, and Captain Phillips 
G. Morrison, Ordnance Corps, both of whom died in mid-October. In Andover 
the Board of Health took prompt action in closing at once all churches, theatres, 
and places of pubUc gathering. The Health Committee of the Public Safety Com- 
mittee, under Dr. Abbott's direction, made every effort to quarantine all influ- 
enza cases, and to assist those who were in need. Most remarkable of all, how- 
ever, was the self-sacrificing spirit shown by a group of ladies, working under the 
auspices of the Red Cross, who not only provided supplies, such as broths and 
jellies, for the sick, but actually, when the emergency grew more serious, did 
volunteer nursing. Day and night Mrs. Hayes, Mrs. Stackpole, Miss Smith, 
Mrs. George F. French, Miss Kuhn, and others labored faithfully and indefati- 
gably, combatting the invisible foe. As a consequence of these precautions and 
the careful attention bestowed upon those who were afflicted, Andover escaped, 
far better than most towns, the ravages of the plague, and the number of deaths 
was comparatively few. 

While the women in this country were thus doing their share in the emergency, 
our fighting men were pressing on where — , 

"Athwart that land of bloss'ming vine 
Stretched the awful battle-line". 




William Rae 

Lance Sergeant, Black Watch, British Army 

Killed in action, August, 1917 



32] 



THE SPIRIT OF THE TOWN 33 

As the tidings came of the drive to Soissons in July and of American successes at 
the heights of the Ourcq, we rejoiced to know that our army was bringing honor 
to the flag. Then in September came the taking of the St. Mihiel saHent, a task 
which brought glory to the men of the Yankee Division. Later in September 
there followed the Meuse-Argonne offensive, in which the New England boys 
also played a conspicuous part. The news was reassuring to everybody. It 
was demonstrable that Germany, if she did not yield, must be driven beyond 
the Rhine. 

All this was highly stimulating to the nation. In October, during the very 
midst of the influenza epidemic, the Fourth Liberty Loan of $6,000,000,000 went 
"over the top". To Andover was assigned a quota of $818,000; but Mr. Flagg 
and his admirably organized committee worked so enthusiastically that they se- 
cured $1,051,000 from nearly three thousand individual subscribers. The record 
made in this campaign surpassed that of any of the previous "drives", and was 
equalled by few towns in the United States. Following close upon the final an- 
nouncement of the Liberty Loan came the movement to raise a United War Work 
Fund of $170,500,000, to be divided among the various humanitarian societies in 
operation at training camps and overseas. Mr. Frederick H. Jones was once 
more called upon to act as Chairman. The preliminary publicity work was most 
effectively done. On Saturday, November 9, the committee unveiled a tablet at 
Memorial Hall in recognition of the nine Andover boys who had already given 
their lives for America and its allies. Mr. Jones presided, and the Reverend Father 
Nugent, the Reverend Frederick A. Wilson, and Principal Stearns delivered brief 
addresses. Two days later Professor Forbes had charge of a mass meeting in the 
Town Hall, the two speakers being the Reverend John T. Ullom, an overseas chap- 
lain, and Mr. William G. O'Brien, of Boston. The campaign thus inaugurated 
brought in nearly $43,000 from almost four thousand contributors. In thus more 
than doubling its quota, Andover made a better record than any town or city in 
its section. 

Before this "drive" was completed, the World War was over, and 

"Peace, battle-worn and starved, and gaunt and pale 
Rose up like mist upon a storm-swept shore". 

Rumor had been alert through the early days of November. It was the time 
when two Andover boys were killed while performing the most courageous duties: 
Private John J. Geagan, of Ballard vale, was mortally wounded on November 1, 
in the Argonne Forest; and Lieutenant Thomas E. Carter, of Company L, 9th 
Infantry, fell on November 4, pierced by German bullets as he was leading his 
men "over the top". But it was evident that Germany was tottering, and would 
not long continue the struggle. On November 8 came a false report of a truce, 
but very few in Andover were deceived by the premature announcement. At 



34 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

last, in the early morning of Monday, November 11, the telegraph wires brought 
the news in such a form that its truth could not be doubted, — an armistice had 
been signed, and hostilities had ceased. No one would have been happy if this had 
meant simply "stale-mate". Coming as it did, however, accompanied by the 
willingness of Germany to submit to exacting terms, the cessation of the war 
brought joy to most American hearts. Bells began to ring out on the night air. 
Out into the cold and cheerless dawn rushed old and young, often half -clothed but 
eager to have a voice in the celebration of victory. Early though it was, an im- 
promptu parade was formed; fish-horns and whistles blew continuously; the Phil- 
lips boys started a huge bonfire. At five o'clock the Phillips Battalion formed on 
the Hill and marched down Main Street, each member carrying a torch. At the 
Town Hall they gathered around the entrance, where Mr. Cole, in the name of 
the Committee of Public Safety, made announcement of a general holiday. After 
breakfast the Comfort Committee engaged a band, and a new procession was 
arranged, which, after making a circuit of the streets, ended at the playstead, 
where Mr. Cole presided over an outdoor mass meeting. Here Mr. Eames, Chair- 
man of the Board of Selectmen, the Reverend Father Nugent, and Professor 
Forbes made appropriate remarks. In the evening thanksgiving services were 
conducted in the various churches. 

The more formal celebration took place on the following day. The Public 
Safety Committee, meeting on Monday evening, had planned a huge "Victory 
Parade ", to include all organizations in the town. At two o'clock in the afternoon, 
accordingly, the line was formed and marched through the town, finishing at the 
Common, where it was reviewed by Major Edgar G. Holt, as Chief Marshal, and 
by the Public Safety Committee. Here Mr. Frederick G. Moore led in the singing 
of patriotic songs, and the day closed with The Star Spangled Banner, rendered 
with an intensity of feeling which few had ever put into it before. 

So the great World War, which for more than eighteen months had occupied 
the thoughts and governed the acts of all loyal Americans, came to a close. But 
the end of hardship and toil had not yet arrived. Formal treaties had yet to be 
negotiated. Millions of soldiers were on the firing-line, or in camps all over the 
United States. Demobilization was bound to be a slow and tedious process. 
When a sick man's pulse and temperature drop, we say that the illness is over; but 
the convalescence is often uncomfortable, and the patient is frequently easily 
irritated. So America, recovering from her war madness, was inevitably to face 
some very trying months. 

The work of providing for the service men naturally could not cease for many 
years. In December the Andover Branch of the American Red Cross, in its 
annual roll-call campaign, managed, under Mr. Shipman's direction, to enroll 
nearly four thousand members. The Publicity Committee of the Red Cross, 
headed by Professor Forbes, attended to sending Christmas gifts to the boys 
abroad. The Pubhc Safety Committee, with courteous thoughtfulness, sent to 



THE SPIRIT OF THE TOWN 35 

every Andover man in uniform a little booklet, extending to him the greetings of 
the holiday season and telling him something of the activities of the town during 
the year just closing. 

Meanwhile the return to civilian life was being accomplished with far less 
red tape than any one had imagined possible. First came those who had been in 
training camps in this country. One began, early in 1919, to see once more some 
of the familiar faces which for months had been missing. Many families were 
made happy by the unannounced arrival of sons or husbands. Then later came 
young men wearing the overseas cap and the gold chevrons which denoted for- 
eign service. Gradually the town, like other towns from Portland, Maine, to 
Portland, Oregon, assumed its normal appearance after a period of stress and 
strain. 

The Public Safety Committee did not neglect the important matter of a 
formal welcome to the returning service men. Mr. Burton S. Flagg, as the Chair- 
man of a Special Committee, collected money to pay for a fitting greeting. An 
Executive Committee to make definite arrangements for the ceremonies was 
named, consisting of Mr. Cole (Chairman), Dr. Stearns, Mr. Fames, Mr. Henry A. 
Bodwell, and Mr. Fred L. Collins. After some discussion, it was determined to 
hold two celebrations: a preliminary one, on March 21, while the excitement was 
still hot; and a larger one later, when all the boys had come back. 

On Friday evening, March 21, then, Andover united in a reception to the 
more than two hundred men who had already been discharged. At seven-thirty 
the returned veterans assembled and marched to the Town House, where the 
Honorable John N. Cole presided, and, after reading the names of the dead, wel- 
comed the soldiers and sailors, in the name of the town. He then introduced 
Major Claude M. Fuess, who spoke briefly, with special reference to the signifi- 
cance of the occasion. Bronze medals, the gift of the citizens of Andover, were 
then pinned on the blouses of the service men by the town officials. The remain- 
der of the evening was spent in dancing and merry-making in the Town Hall, and 
in the club rooms of various fraternal organizations, all of which kept open house. 

The newspapers were now filled with joyful items regarding the landing of 
the overseas troops. The Andover boys in the 26th Division, with one or two ex- 
ceptions, disembarked at Boston on April 10. Two weeks later on Friday, April 25, 
this Division, with Major General Edwards riding at the head, paraded 
through the Boston streets. It was a notable day in New England history, for the 
division had covered itself with distinction, and every one on the reviewing 
stands felt a thrill of pride in its record. These men had left in secrecy and silence 
a year and a half before; now they were back in the full blaze of glory, after having 
done more than their share in assuring victory to the Allies. 

There were others also still to come, and hardly a week passed without bring- 
ing a detachment of boys in uniform. It was this general spirit of deHght at the 
safe return of the expeditionary forces that was a large factor in making the Vic- 



36 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

tory Loan of May, 1919, so successful. This Loan was confessedly the most diffi- 
cult of the five. Taxes had increased to an alarming extent ; banks were carrying 
an enormous amount of securities; and there was a perceptible reaction from the 
vigorous enthusiasm of war times. In spite of these facts, Mr. Flagg organized 
his solicitors, and, through systematic salesmanship, secured 1095 subscribers, for 
a total sum of $955,000. As Andover's quota was but $613,500, her showing in 
this, the last of the great loan campaigns, indicated no falling off from what had 
already been done. 

The final welcome to Andover's sons was wisely postponed until nearly all 
were on hand to participate. At last, on September 5 and 6, the town was 
ready for the celebration. On Friday evening the Common was brilliantly illumi- 
nated, and the entire community assembled to act as a reception committee for 
the veterans. Gathering in the American Legion rooms, the service men, marshal- 
led by Major Bartlett H. Hayes, marched to the stand, where the Honorable 
John N. Cole addressed them in a few fitting words. Colonel Edward L. Logan, 
of the 101st Infantry, then delivered a speech, praising the work of the town dur- 
ing the war. Medals were later presented to those who had not yet received them, 
including Andover's four Red Cross nurses. Miss Abbott, Miss Spinney, Miss 
Hulme, and Mrs. Bryant. During the remainder of the evening there was danc- 
ing wherever sufficient floor space could be found. 

On Saturday, September 6, came the chief feature, — a parade which un- 
doubtedly surpassed anything of the kind ever seen in the town. The reviewing 
stand where the service men were seated was located at the top of And over Hill, 
on the old Training Field. Here they watched float after float go by, each rep- 
resenting some war activity; it was estimated that more than three thousand per- 
sons actually marched in line. The spectacle was indeed impressive. When the 
last organization had passed, the veterans fell into squad formation at the rear 
until Brothers' Field was reached, when the preceding marchers divided, allowing 
the service men to pass between the rows, amid the incessant cheering of the 
crowd. At this point Comrade E. Kendall Jenkins, representing General William 
F. Bartlet Post, Number 99, Grand Army of the Republic, presented a beautiful 
standard to Commander PhiHp W. Thomson, of Andover Post, Number 8, Amer- 
ican Legion. Captain Thomson, in reply, spoke feelingly of the courtesy shown 
by the members of the Grand Army of the Republic, and thanked them for the 
generous gift. 

This ceremony concluded, five thousand people had luncheon in little groups 
on the spacious playing fields of Phillips Academy. Arrangements had been made 
to supply everybody with edibles, and the day was ideal for picnicking beneath the 
trees. In the afternoon came sports of various kinds, including contests in base- 
ball and track athletics. At six-thirty the service men once more fell into line 
and marched to the Phillips Academy Gymnasium, where dinner was provided for 
about five hundred. Principal Alfred E. Stearns, as Presiding Officer, introduced 



THE SPIRIT OF THE TOWN 37 

the speakers, who included Governor Calvin Coolidge, Major General Clarence R. 
Edwards, Lieutenant Colonel Frank S. Evans, of the British Army, the Hon- 
orable John N. Cole, the Reverend Father John A. Nugent, and two representa- 
tives of the service men, — Lieutenant William J. Cronin, of the army, and Lieu- 
tenant Dwight Moody, of the navy. Later in the evening General Edwards spoke 
to a great audience on the Common, and the day closed with outdoor "movies" for 
all who cared to linger. It was unquestionably a glorious celebration. The head- 
ing of an editorial in the Townsman, — " ANDOVER MEETS ANDOVER", — 
describes it accurately. Joined by a desire to honor the returned soldiers and sail- 
ors, Andover men and women were for the moment, absolutely forgetful of class or 
social distinctions, of differences in wealth or position, of variations in creeds. It 
was a time for friendliness, good will, and unselfish recognition of others. All stood 
together, linked by a spirit of happiness and satisfaction. 

With this notable welcome, the story of Andover's part in the World War 
comes naturally to a close. The diplomatic proceedings which followed the laying 
down of arms are likely to have a far-reaching influence on the future of the world. 
But the war for which Americans were willing to risk their lives is now over, and 
the men who have been in uniform are with us again, back at their daily tasks. 
We have returned, we trust, to a time of peaceful living, and the World War is 
already a memory, a subject for reminiscence and formal history. 

In a short account such as this much has necessarily been omitted. There has 
been no opportunity, for instance, of mentioning the activities of the various 
church societies, all of which were energetic in pushing forward the different kinds 
of war work. Most of them sooner or later unfurled their own service flags: the 
Free Christian Church on November 25, 1917, St. Augustine's Church on January 
1, 1918, Christ Church on January 5, 1918, the South Church on April 7, 1918, 
and the West Church on April 28, 1918. There was such a group as the Tuesday 
Club, which sewed regularly for the Red Cross, presented $50 to that organiza- 
tion, and contributed over $1000 for the adoption of French orphans. A commit- 
tee, headed by Mrs. Horace M. Poynter, collected money for a Suffrage Coffee 
House, at Ayer, for the boys of Camp Devens. A Red Cross Committee, with 
Mrs. F. L. Purdon as Chairman, gathered a quantity of clothes for needy Belgians 
in early September, 1918. The Red Cross Civilian Relief Committee, directed 
first by Dr. Fuess, and later by Mr. John C. Angus and Mr. Hayes, undertook 
with much success to care for needy cases arising from war conditions. 

But all these, and other agencies which might be named, were merely indi- 
cations of a spirit which was everywhere prevalent, along every "Main Street" 
from Boston to San Francisco. During the war period men and women were 
eager to do whatever was within their power. Some found it possible to enlist and 
fight ; others could labor at home ; many could simply give from their hard earn- 
ings; but the man in Andover who did nothing must have been rare indeed. 



38 THE SPIRIT OF THE TOWN 

One sad feature, part of the aftermath of war, was yet to come. In the spring 
and summer of 1921 the bodies of four Andover soldiers were sent home from 
overseas, and buried, with formal ceremonies, in cemeteries within the town. 
The first body to arrive was that of Michael Joseph Daly, whose heroic death 
has already been mentioned, and whose funeral service was held in St. Augus- 
tine's Church. Ten days later the last rites were performed in the South Church 
over the body of Private John H. Baker, who had died in France on Januar>^ 4, 
1919. Then came the body of Private Charles A. Young, in whose memory- a 
service was conducted in the Free Church. Last of all were the ceremonies in 
honor of John J. Geagan, of Ballardvale, whose remains were brought from 
overseas and for whom a solemn high mass was sung on September 19, in St. 
Joseph's Church, many of his army comrades participating. At all these funeral 
services the stores in the town were closed as an e\"idence of respect, and the 
American Legion appeared in uniform to guard the bodies to their last resting- 
places and to fire a salute over the graves of the heroic dead. 

It is the men of the American Legion who help most to remind us of the tre- 
mendous struggle through which we have passed. Thanks to them. 

" No more shall lawless force be throned as God, 
The troubled nations of the earth no more 
Shall humbly wait upon a despot's nod. " 

As they march by on Memorial Day, we are led ine\-itably to think of the young 
lives which were prematurely ended, of the sufferings which so many had to under- 
go, of the many e\'ils and dangers which have followed in the train of war. And 
yet there must be few who regret that we, as a nation, took the course we did. It 
may be that self-seeking and greed and en\-y viill gain control of our national 
affairs ; but we shall still have the memor\- of a time when men and women were 
united in the spirit of loft\' idealism. If, through the reaction which has come as a 
consequence of war, we can but retain a portion of the \'ision and loyalty of 1918, 
the great conflict will not have been fought in vain. 




I > will C. S. Croall 

Private, Black Watch, British Army 

Killed in action, April 27, 1918 



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THE GLORIOUS DEAD 

"Grim death has vanished, leaving in its stead 
The shining glory of the living dead. " 

laiiniam Pert 

''His heart was high to the end, and dreamed 
Of the sound and splendour of England's war.'' 

Private William Pert, of the world-renowned Black Watch, was the first 
man from Andover to give his life in the Great War. Born in Dundee, Scotland, 
he enlisted in the British Army at the age of eighteen. The section of the high- 
lands in which he was brought up was a favorite recruiting ground for the Black 
Watch, and it was natural that he should don the tartan of the 42d Highlanders, 
— a regiment whose record goes back to 1 740. 

After serving for seven years in India, Private Pert secured his discharge and 
came to the United States to join many of his friends. When war broke out in 
1914, he was on a visit to his native land, and he lost no time in rejoining the 
colors. He was sent to France, and took part in a number of the early engage- 
ments. 

On September 25, 1916, while acting as a sniper at the battle of Loos, he was 
instantly killed. Besides his father and mother, he left three sisters and four 
brothers in Scotland, and another sister, Mrs. Robert Dobbie, of Maple Avenue, 
Andover. 

Private Pert was a fighter of the Berserker type, a man of dauntless courage 
and inflexible determination. He was a fitting descendant of the Scotchmen who 
fought so gallantly at Bannockburn and Culloden Moor, and in many a vigorous 
Highland foray. Although he was not a native son of Andover, he and his 
heroic death will be long remembered in the annals of the town. 



f amesf Caban 

"By his grave the grasses stir 
But he is silent sleeping there." 

Sergeant James Cavan was born in Dundee, Scotland, and, like Private Pert, 
enrolled in the British regulars when he was only eighteen. He chose the Royal 



42 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

Scots Fusileers, with which regiment he served for eight years in India, — Hving 
the life so well described by Kipling in his stories of Ortheris, Ackroyd, and Mul- 
vaney. 

Honorably discharged but still subject to emergency call, he came to the 
United States, and located at Andover. Just before the war started, he had made 
a visit to his old home, and he was actually on the ocean when the news reached 
him. Wasting no time, he said "Good-bye" to his Andover friends and took the 
next ship back to Scotland, where he rejoined his former regiment and was soon 
in France with the Salvage Corps. 

For two and a half years he saw almost constant fighting, but escaped with- 
out a scratch. Then, on April 19, 1917, as he was returning from the funeral of a 
comrade, a German sniper's bullet struck him, and he died within a few minutes. 

While in Andover James Cavan took a keen interest in Soccer, and sup- 
ported every contest. He was a member of Clan Johnston, 185, O. S. C, and the 
first of the clansmen to answer the last roll-call. He is survived by three sisters 
and four brothers, all in Dundee. 



" 'Twas the right death to die, lad, 
A gift without regret." 

Lance-Sergeant William Rae was a true sportsman and a gallant soldier. 
Stalwart in build and aggressive in manner, he was a commanding figure on the 
athletic ground as he led his team at soccer or played at cricket on the old field. 
And in the fight of the Allies, when the German hordes were pressing hard on the 
British line, "Bill" Rae was struggling for victory with the same dogged tenacity 
that he had shown so often in many a hard -con tested game. 

Born in Arbroath, Scotland, the native town of so many fine Andoverians, 
Rae came to the United States, where he found employment in the Tyer Rubber 
Company. In the spring of 1915 he was unable to resist the appeal of King and 
Country, and, recrossing the sea, joined the Black Watch. After preliminary 
training he was ordered to France, where he took part in some of the fiercest 
combats of the war. He rose in the ranks and became a Lance-Sergeant. Then 
came the great battle of Loos, after which word was received here that genial 
"Bill" Rae was among the missing. Finally, after weeks of doubtful hope, the 
news arrived from the British War Office that Sergeant Rae had "gone west." He 
died in August, 1917. 




Patrick Joseph O'Neil 

Private, Victoria Rifles, Canadian Army 

Killed in action, August 27, 1918 



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THE GLORIOUS DEAD 45 

Babttr C. ^. Croall 

" You have scaled the starry heights of fame, 
Nor ever shrunk from peril and distress 
In fight undaunted for the conqueror's prize." 

David C. S. Croall, like William Rae, was a native of Arbroath, Scotland, 
where he was born in 1886. At the age of twenty he emigrated to America and 
settled in Andover, where he was in the employ of the Tyer Rubber Company. 
He was married in 1912, to Miss Jessie Kircaldy, and had learned to call Andover 
his home. 

Early in 1915, however, when the call of the Empire for men became strong, 
Croall returned to Scotland and enlisted in the Lewis Gun section of the 5th Black 
Watch Regiment. He was, of course, constantly within the danger zone, and, 
after a series of sanguinary battles, he was badly wounded and invalided home. 
Here he had a chance to see his only son, who had been born during his absence; 
but his visit could be only a short one, and he was soon again in the front line 
trenches. Six weeks after his return, on April 27, 1918, he was killed by a sniper's 
bullet, at Voormegeleeon. 

Private Croall was a young man of quiet and thoughtful disposition, but ex- 
ceedingly popular both among his fellow members of Clan Johnston and in the 
town at large. He played on the Andover cricket team and was also very fond of 
soccer. His loyalty to Scotland was an example to every American of the power 
of duty and of patriotism. 



Patricfe f osiepf) 0*Mti\ 

" Unto each man his handiwork, unto each his crown 
The just fate gives: 
Who so takes the world's life on him, and his own lays down 
He, dying so, lives. 

Patrick J. O'Neil enlisted in the Victoria Rifles of the Canadian Expedition- 
ary Forces in the summer of 1917 and was the only Andover man with the Domin- 
ion troops to fall before the enemy's fire. 

Private O'Neil was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, and came to America 
in 1910, settling in Andover, where he made a home for himself. When the call for 
reinforcements came in 1917, he left his wife and four small children and went 
forth to battle. He spent but a short time in Canada. The intensive training 
was done in England, but early in 1918 he crossed the channel to the front line. 
He was in the fiercest of the fighting for three months and well earned a brief rest 



46 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

from trench warfare. It was then he wrote home saying that he hoped the war 
would soon be over so that he could "return to his kiddies." 

But Private O'Neil never came back. Returning to the combat in the final 
assault on the Germans, he fell in the heavy fighting, killed in action in France on 
August 27, 1918, aged thirty-four years. Besides his wife and four children he left 
his mother, Mrs. Sarah J. O'Neil, and three sisters. 



Cfjarlej; JSitfeen i^ownu 

"7 can but think, while lives nobility, 
While honour lights a path for humankind. 
While aught is beautiful, or aught enshrined. 
Death hath overtaken but not conquered thee." 

Charles Aitken Young, son of Mrs. William Young of Essex Street, was born 
in 1895, at Dundee, Scotland, but came to the United States with his family when 
he was only eleven years old. When America entered the World War, on April 6, 
1917, he was at work in the Smith and Dove factory, but ehlisted almost imme- 
diately in the newly-formed 26th Division, in which he was assigned to Company 
B, 101st Infantry. The story of the exploits of the Yankee Division is known to 
every New Englander, — and of them Private Charles Young was a part. In 
the drive on Chateau Thierry in the early summer of 1918, however, he received 
a wound in the left hand. Although he was sent at once to the hospital, blood 
poisoning soon set in, and, on September 2, 1918, he died, this being the first 
fatality among Andover men in the American Expeditionary Forces. 

Charles Young was a modest and genial young man, of high ideals and as- 
pirations. His devotion to his family and his interest in the public welfare had 
already shown him to be a promising citizen. He was a member of the Grenfell 
Class of young men in the Free Church, and the class turned out in a body when 
Private Young, on June 21, 1921, was buried with full military honors. With the 
pipes playing "Lochaber No More," the body of the boy soldier was escorted to 
Spring Grove Cemetery, and there laid to rest. Our little town has seldom seen a 
more impressive funeral. 



iHlicfjael f oflfepfj Balp 

"He marched away with a blithe young score of him 
With the first volunteers. 
Clear -eyed and clean and sound to the core of him, 
Blushing under the cheers." 

Michael Joseph Daly, son of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Daly of Buxton Court, was 
the first native Andoverian to give his life for his country in the World War. 



THE GLORIOUS DEAD 47 

Bom in this town in 1895, he was educated in the local public schools, graduated 
at Punchard High School in the class of 1913, and then became a letter-carrier in 
the Andover Post Office. In the autumn of 1917 he enlisted, with his friend, 
John J. Stack, in the 45th Coast Artillery, both being sent to France in March, 
1918, where they were transferred to the 119th Field Artillery. On Septem- 
ber 1, while a German airplane was dropping bombs on their sector, a shell ex- 
ploded near them, hitting both Andover boys. Private Stack was severely hurt, 
but recovered ; Private Daly, who was struck just above the right knee, died a few 
days later in the hospital. 

"Lug" Daly, — to give him the nickname by which he was affectionately 
known, — had a cheerful word for everybody on his route, and his willingness to 
oblige others made him exceedingly popular. An athlete of no little note, he 
played baseball with skill and was a member of the Andover bowling team. He 
belonged to Andover Council, Knights of Columbus. 

Private Daly's body was eventually returned to Andover for burial, and, on 
May 21, 1921, a great throng of friends followed the casket as it was borne, with 
full military honors, to St. Augustine's church, and, after the High Requiem serv- 
ice, placed in its last resting place in St. Augustine's Cemetery. The ceremonies 
were the tribute of the town to a brave and patriotic son. 



J^fliHips; ^avxiion Movviion 

"Not in the wild rush of the fight 
God saw it meet for you to die. 
Yet he who keeps his armor bright 
His Lord doth magnify. 
You answered equally the call, 
And he who gives himself gives all." 

When Captain Phillips Garrison Morrison died, on October 12, 1918, of 
pneumonia contracted while he was in the service of his country, Andover lost one 
of her most promising young men. Born on March 22, 1894, in Merrimac, Mas- 
sachusetts, he moved to Andover with his parents, and here attended Phillips 
Academy, where, with his keen and active mind, he made a notable record in 
scholarship. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he 
graduated in 1916, he continued to win brilliant successes, and took high honors. 
In June, 1917, he was commissioned as 1st Lieutenant in the Ordnance Corps, 
for which work he was exceptionally well qualified, and was promoted in January 
of the following year to a Captaincy. His duties placed him first at the Franjcford 
Arsenal, in Philadelphia, and later at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, in Maryland, 
where he died. His recommendation for a majority was about to be favorably 
considered. 



48 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

Captain Morrison was a high-minded, unselfish officer, always eager to do his 
best and willing to undertake any duty, no matter how arduous. Endowed by 
good fortune with remarkable mental powers, he joined with them a capacity for 
continuous labor unusual in one so young. He was evidently destined for a most 
useful career, and those who knew him find it difficult to choose the words which 
can fittingly do justice to his noble character. 



CJ)oma£( m, piatt, f r. 

"And you, to whom it was not given 
To die upon the foughten field, — 
Yes, you full equally have striven, 
For you your lives did yield 
As nobly as the men who fell. 
There in the blazing mouth of hell." 

Thomas W. Piatt, Jr., was the only Andover boy in the navy to give his life 
"in line of duty." The son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Piatt of Walnut Avenue, 
he was bom here in 1896, and educated in the grammar schools and in Punchard 
High School. He early entered the employ of the Andover Press, where he acted 
as monotype machinist. He was one of several members of the Andover Canoe 
Club to enlist in the Naval Reserve on April 7, 1917, the day after war was de- 
clared by the United States. Called to active service in October, 1917, he was as- 
signed first to Bumpkin Island, and then to the naval headquarters at Machias, 
Maine. His appointment as Quartermaster at Nash Island, Maine, was soon an- 
nounced, but he was later transferred to Ellsworth. In October, 1918, he was 
stricken with the prevalent influenza, which soon developed into pneumonia. 
Although he was at once taken to the Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, New Hamp- 
shire, he died on October 14. At the time of his decease he held the rank of Signal 
Quartermaster. He is survived by his parents, and also by three brothers and 
two sisters. 



"He did not die alone. 
His God was with him in that last dread hour; 
His great arm underneath him, and His smile 
Melting into a spirit full of peace." 

Posted as missing in action on October 27, 1918, just two weeks before the 
armistice was signed. Sergeant John J. Murphy was, on March 4, 1919, finally 
given up as dead, blown to eternity by a shell in the Argonne Forest. His death 




Michael Joseph Daly 

Private, 119th Field Artillery, U. S. Army 

Died of wounds, September, 1918 



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THE GLORIOUS DEAD 51 

was never officially recorded by the War Department, "missing in action and 
presumably dead" being the notification sent to his relatives. Assurance that he 
died on the field of battle was conveyed in a letter from a member of his company 
who was with him a few minutes before the shell struck. 

John J. Murphy was born in Lawrence. His parents died while he was a 
small boy, and he made his home with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. James 
Murphy of Stevens street, Marland Village. He was employed in Marland Mills 
and enlisted in Co. F, 9th Mass. Inf., in October, 1914, before he was sixteen years 
old. He went with his company to the Mexican border in 1916 and volunteered 
for overseas service with his old command when war was declared. He was a 
member of the 101st Infantry, 26th Division, in which unit he was a sergeant at 
the time of his death. He fought at Seicheprey, the Second Marne, Fere, and 
Fismes, and, when the final drive against the Germans began, he was at St. Mihiel, 
where he was cited for conspicuous bravery. Then came the death valley of the 
Meuse, and in the Argonne he met his death. By a strange coincidence, his uncle 
died the same day at the Emery Hill hospital, Lawrence, during the influenza 
epidemic. 

Sergeant Murphy was the youngest of Andover's heroes to pay the supreme 
sacrifice. A boy when he enlisted, he was still under age when he crossed to 
France and but twenty years old when his life's blood ebbed out on the shell- 
shattered slopes of the Argonne Forest. 



Sfofjn J. (Reagan 

"Sleep well, heroic soul, in silence sleep. 
Lapped in the circling arms of kindly death!" 

John J. Geagan, born in Versailles, Connecticut, on September 12, 1886, 
moved to Ballardvale in 1902, and attended Punchard High School, from which he 
graduated in 1903. For four years he was employed in Lowe's drug store, in 
Andover; he then, with commendable ambition, took the full course in the Massa- 
chusetts College of Pharmacy, eventually becoming a registered pharmacist. It 
was a natural step to the managership of the Lawrence Street Drug and Chemical 
Company, of Lawrence. At the outbreak of the war he was temporarily in Canada, 
but he returned as soon as possible to the United States, enlisting on November 23, 
1917, at St. Louis. He was stationed for a short time at Jefferson Barracks, but 
was then transferred to Fort Myer, Virginia, where he was assigned to the Medical 



52 ANDOVER IN THE WO^RLD WAR 

Detachment, 1st Gas Regiment. He went to France early in July, 1918, and was 
instantly killed on November 1. 

Private Geagan was a stout-hearted and strong-limbed young man, full of 
energy and spirit. His death cut short a life which bade fair to do a worthy work 
in the world. 



^ijomafi Cbtoarb Carter 

" The fittest place where man can die 
Is where he dies for man." 

Thomas Edward Carter, son of Mr. and Mrs. George M. Carter, of West 
Andover, was educated in the local schools, and went on to Massachusetts Agri- 
cultural College, where he was a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity and 
was elected Captain of the Regiment. Before graduation, however, he left, with 
a group of selected candidates, to attend the Officers' Training School, at Camp 
Upton, Long Island. At the conclusion of the course of instruction, he was offered 
a commission, on condition that he would remain as a teacher in American camps. 
He preferred, however, to enlist as a private in Company G, 208th Infantry, which 
went overseas early in 1918. He was later transferred to Company L, 9th Infan- 
try, and commissioned as 2d Lieutenant on the field of battle, — an unusual honor. 
With this unit under his command he was in the thick of the fighting, and in one 
week went "over the top" three times, all his superior officers in the company 
having been wounded. On November 4, while pursuing a body of retreating 
Germans near La Tuilerie Ferme, he was instantly killed by machine gun fire. 
For conspicuous bravery in this action he was given a posthumous award of the 
French Croix de Guerre and American Distinguished Service Cross. In writing 
Lieutenant Carter's mother. Major General Le Jeune, of the 2d Division, said : — 

"The men of his company speak of him as being full of fun and very cheerful. They say 
that on the battlefield he kept his company in as good order as on the drill ground, and they 
greatly admired him for his skill. They also say he was the most fearless man they ever knew." 

"Tom" Carter was indeed a prime favorite wherever he went, and deserved 
every honor that was presented to him. At a special memorial service, held in 
the West Parish Church, the Reverend Newman Matthews gave an eloquent de- 
scription of the young man's character, emphasizing his unselfishness, his forti- 
tude, his readiness and eagerness to do his best, and his steadfastness of pur- 
pose. In his aims and in his achievements he was a Christian gentleman. 




Charles Aitken Young 
Private, 101st Infantry, U. S. Army 
Died of wounds, September 2, 1918 



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THE GLORIOUS DEAD 55 

4leorge MtUtam ^impaon 

"They never fail who die 
In a great cause." 

George William Simpson, son of the late Allan Simpson, formerly superintend- 
ent of the Ballardvale Mills, was born in Andover, November 6, 1888. Because 
of his personal attractiveness and native ability, he early made many friends, 
among them Mr. William M. Wood, of the American Woolen Company, through 
whose encouragement he was offered an excellent business opportunity. As a 
wool buyer, Mr. Simpson was unusually successful, and was rapidly rising to a 
place of high responsibiHty. The war, however, as in so many similar cases, in- 
terrupted his promising career, and, in the autumn of 1918, he enlisted at Camp 
Lee, Virginia, in the Officers' Training Camp. Ten days later he was attacked by 
the prevalent influenza in a virulent form. It developed into pneumonia, and 
death came on the morning of Saturday, November 9. 

Mr. Simpson was married in 1912 to Miss Dorothy Davis, of North Andover, 
who, with a son and a daughter, still survives him. He was a member of many 
clubs and social organizations. Although of late years his residence had been 
mainly in Boston, he had spent his summers in North Andover, and his enlistment 
in the army was made from this town. 

Those who knew George Simpson — and his friends were legion — will long 
remember his warm heart and sunny personality. Gifted beyond the average man, 
he would, but for the stroke of untoward fate, have won his way to notable dis- 
tinction. 



f oJjn l^otoarb Pafeer 

"With uncovered head 
Salute the sacred dead 
Who went, and who return not." 

John Howard Baker, when Battery F of the 102d Field Artillery was forming 
shortly after we entered the war, was one of the first Andover boys to volunteer. 
The son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Howard Baker, of Barnard Street, he was then only 
nineteen years old. After an education in the Andover public schools, he took a 
position with the late J. E. Whiting, in a jewelry store, and was located there 
when the war broke out. Crossing to France in the autumn of 1917 with the 
Yankee Division, he participated in all the fierce fighting of the summer and fall 
of the following year. After passing through many battles without a wound, he 
finally, after the armistice, contracted bronchial pneumonia, and died in a military 
hospital, January 3, 1919. 



56 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

Private Baker was a faithful, open-hearted, and alert young man. He was 
by nature so far from combative that it was to some rather a surprise when he so 
quickly offered himself for military duty; but it was really in complete accord 
with a character which his friends already knew and with which his comrades in 
the battle-line were soon to become familiar. 

Shortly after the sad news of Private Baker's death arrived in Andover, a 
memorial service was held in the Old South Church, of which he was a member. 
On Saturday, June 18, 1921, when his body had been returned to these shores, 
funeral ceremonies, under the auspices of the American Legion, were held in the 
South Church, at which time Private Baker's former chaplain, Captain Markham 
W. Stackpole, paid a tribute to the young artilleryman. He was buried in the 
Edson Cemetery, in Lowell, where a salvo from a French '"75," similar to that 
which he had so often supplied with ammunition along the front, was a last 
sign of respect to his memory from his former "buddies." 




Phillips Garrison Morrison 

Captain, Ordnance Corps, U. S. Army 

Died, October 12, 1918 



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THE ANDOVER COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY 

By John N. Cole 

"We shall exult, if they who rule the land, 
Be men who hold its many blessings dear. 
Wise, upright, valiant; not a servile band. 
Who are to judge of danger which they fear, 
And honour which they do not understand." 

For nearly three centuries the town of Andover, Massachusetts, has been a 
Hving, growing, developing force, in the great state of which she is a part. Na- 
tional crises have always aroused enthusiastic interest, abounding loyalty, and 
universal support. 

To write in retrospect of the deeds done, the sacrifices made in the doing, the 
keen sense of responsibility, the joy in the service, all manifest in the activities 
undertaken by the people of Andover, under the leadership of the Committee on 
PubHc Safety, during the trying days of 1917, 1918, and 1919, is again to experi- 
ence some of the rare sensations that come to the American citizen whenever he 
meets the aroused loyalty of his fellowmen. 

To use the words "under the leadership of the Committee on Public Safety," is 
simply to give point to the fact that this organization had a part in what Andover 
did. To claim that the work performed was because of any single leadership of 
men or methods, would be to ignore the higher leadership that controlled practi- 
cally all of the nation's activities, from the early days of 1917 until the close of the 
war. No individual, and no group however organized, can claim more than a 
slight share of the responsibility that the whole American people had in the direc- 
tion of the activities of the United States in the Great World War. It was under 
the sort of inspiration that makes every man a leader because he wants to follow, 
that the Committee on Public Safety in Andover was formed the latter part of 
March, 1917, and it was the same inspiration and the same purpose that carried 
the work on from that time until the armistice had struck the last note that told of 
victory won and purpose accomplished. 

The local committee originally named by the Board of Selectmen was made 
up of the following gentlemen : 

John N. Cole, Chairman; John C. Angus, Secretary; C. W. Holland, Treas- 
urer; Charles E. Abbott, M. D., Henry A. Bodwell, John H. Campion, William 



60 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

C. Crowley, Harry M. Eames, Burton S. Flagg, Bartlett H. Hayes, Ralph O. 
Ingram, Frederick H. Jones, Alfred L. Ripley, George F. Smith, Alfred E. Stearns. 
It was immediately recognized by this Committee, which served as the exec- 
utive committee throughout the town's entire activities, that the important 
work to be directed so far as was necessary, had to do with food production, or- 
ganization of a unit of the Home Guard then forming in the Commonwealth, 
care of health, and a local survey that should better comprehend the town's 
ability and equipment for service. Work was also undertaken to aid various or- 
ganizations and individuals in connection with war work, and to give advice and 
aid to aliens, all supported by a Finance Committee charged with the financial 
responsibility associated with any activities that might be undertaken. The or- 
ganization of these committees was perfected by the following original appoint- 
ments, and with very few changes, these men and women served throughout 
the war. 

Food Production and Conservation: Frederick H. Jones, Chairman; Ralph N. V. 
Barnes, Henry W. Barnard, Henry A. Bodwell, Frank L. Cole, Marquis M. Converse, 
William B. Corliss, Myron E. Gutterson, P. J. Hannon, V. D. Harrington, Walter M. 
Lamont, Horace M. Poynter, Mary Byers Smith, Fred A. Swanton, Fred M. Temple. 

Local Survey: John H. Campion, Chairman; Charles B. Baldwin, Frank H. Buttrick, 
Fred G. Cheney, Walter S. Donald, Charles H. Forbes, Frank H. Hardy, Philip L. 
Hardy, Timothy J. Mahoney, Frederic G. Moore, Walter I. Morse, Philip F. Ripley, 
Barnett Rogers, J. Duke Smith, James C. Soutar. 

Finance: Alfred L. Ripley, Chairman; George Abbot, Frederic S. Boutwell, William 
J. Burns, E. Barton Chapin, William D. Currier, Maurice J. Curran, Granville K. Cutler, 
Edward V. French, Willis B. Hodgkins, Chester W. Holland, George L. Selden, David 
Shaw, George F. Smith, Augustus P. Thompson. 

Home Guard: Edgar G. Holt, Chairman; Charles Buchan, Joseph L. Burns, Herbert 
F. Chase, William J. Cronin, Jerome W. Cross, Percival Dove, George M. Henderson, 
William H. Jaquith, H. Bradford Lewis, B. Frank Michelsen, Joseph L. Myerscough, 
Peirson S. Page, M. D., Philip W. Thomson. 

Health: Dr. Charles E. Abbott, Chairman; Dr. J. J. Daly, Mrs. Bartlett H. Hayes, 
and men and women representatives of health and nursing organizations in Andover, to 
be selected by committee. 

Volunteer Aid: Burton S. Flagg, Chairman; Charles Bowman, Lewis H. Homer, 
Miss Elizabeth Smith, Colver J. Stone, and men and women representatives of various 
aid and relief societies in Andover, to be selected by committee. 

Advice and Aid to Aliens: William C. Crowley, Chairman; John W. Bell, Charles 
W. Clark, Dan Hilton, Everett C. Hilton, Charles McDermitt. 

To give to these committees credit for exclusive control or direction of the 
great work accomplished by the town, would be most unfair to many other groups 
whose activities had long been important factors in the life of the town, diverted 
from their regular work to war work and soon making rare agencies for service. 
The Red Cross Organization, the entire plant of the Guild devoted to many forms 



COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY 61 

of work, the many women's organizations in churches and clubs, the clubs them- 
selves, the Woman's ReHef Corps, the fraternal organizations, social clubs, ath- 
letic clubs, groups of every kind and sort, however formed and with many differ- 
ent original purposes, all became a part of the universal effort of all Andover to 
have a show in the work undertaken by the American nation. 

The work of the Food Production and Service Committee was one of the 
most striking contributions during the first year, somewhat less so the second year, 
but taken as a whole undoubtedly commanding more universal support and en- 
thusiasm and more widespread interest than the work of any of the other com- 
mittees. The work was finely done with little expense, except that undertaken by 
the various people that had a part in it, and undoubtedly resulted in a very large 
addition to the production of staple crops in the town. 

The Committee on Local Survey unfolded to the town the first story that had 
ever been written of the skilled mechanics and trained workers upon whom the 
town, the state, and the nation might rely if the call came for intensive activities 
along any line. 

Supplementing this work was the task undertaken by the Volunteer Aid 
Committee, which worked out a plan through which all the citizenship of the town 
could be relied upon through cooperation and a better knowledge of what men 
and women could do to lay the foundation for a better town, where every man and 
woman should know his place, and knowing his place be ready to bear his own 
particular share of the whole burden. 

The Committee on Health kept itself in touch with individuals and groups, 
single cases and possible epidemics, with such care and attention that the town 
met all conditions that might otherwise have brought about serious consequences, 
with a clean bill of health most satisfying. 

The Committee for "Aid to the Aliens" carried on the kind of work that led 
many a man to ally himself more closely to the United States of which he felt 
himself a new part, and helped many others whose kinship and citizenship were in 
other lands to keep in touch with those dear to them, where they might otherwise 
have felt themselves in a strange country. 

The work of the committee on Home Guard made itself felt from the day 
when the Committee first organized in 1917 until long after the armistice had 
been signed. Old and young, with and without military training, eagerly allied 
themselves to the Andover Company, full of a desire to bear arms to the fullest 
extent of their ability in any of the many branches of military service which the 
Nation might develop. From the company went out into national service a num- 
ber of men of whom the town had reason to be very proud. In the days that fol- 
lowed that early meeting, inspired by the interest undoubtedly aroused by that 
appeal, many others found places in the regular army, and it would not seem to be 
too much to claim that the organization of the Andover Home Guard was the 
greatest factor in the military service which the town of Andover contributed to 



62 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

the nation. Colonels, majors, and captains from Andover were developed through 
the three years of war, and linked with the 600 or more privates and non-com- 
missioned officers, make up the chief group of men to be given the highest places 
in the service that was rendered. Who can tell how much of the service that these 
men gave to their country was due to the Andover spirit inspired by the devoted 
service rendered by the men in the Andover Home Guard ! 

How many towns in the nation so organized the finances for pubHc work under 
the trying times of 1917, 1918, and 1919, that hardly more than half of the 
money pledged was needed for carrying on the work undertaken? Never once 
during the entire life of the Public Safety Committee did the question of money 
stand in the way of undertaking anything and everything that seemed for the 
best. Not alone in its support of its committees but through its contributions to 
the several liberty loans, its enthusiastic support of the national Red Cross and 
Y. M. C. A., and its response to every appeal for funds from all sources, the 
answer came if the purpose was clear in service to the nation. 

The Andover Committee on Public Safety had its inception in the call upon 
the American people to bear their proper share in the task of world civilization. 
Under the inspiration and enthusiasm of war appeal great deeds were done. The 
Andover Committee has been dissolved. Its purpose was aroused by an appeal 
that was national and world-wide. Its achievements in Andover were a part 
of the world achievement. The tasks that are left have none of the pomp of war 
about them, have little of the heroic to inspire them; they exist nevertheless in 
their continued appeal to Andover people to show high patriotism, exhibit self- 
denial, and ever maintain loyalty to the institutions of government. 



THE FINANCE COMMITTEE 

One of the first problems which the Committee of Public Safety had to face 
was the unromantic but vital matter of securing funds for the support of its plans. 
A meeting of the Finance Committee was called by its Chairman, Mr. Alfred L. 
Ripley, of the Merchants National Bank of Boston, for the evening of Wednesday, 
April 11, at which time an arrangement was perfected for an appeal by letter to 
every citizen of the town. A system of memberships, pledges, and guarantees was 
devised, the object being to secure at once a sufficient sum to meet the immediate 
expenses of the Public Safety Committee and also to provide a source of monetary 
supply for future contingencies. Placards and subscription blanks were spread 
broadcast, and, with the help of the Boy Scouts, a thorough canvass was made of 
the community. In his report at the close of 1917 Mr. Ripley showed that there 
were 645 members at $1.00, forty-eight members at $.50 and eighty members at 



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63 



$.25. In addition a group of guarantors had promised $3250, and pledges aggre- 
gating $3410 had been received from 213 individuals. Of this sum guaranteed 
and pledged, however, only half had been called for, amounting to $3330. The 
report showed the total receipts in cash to have been $4281.58; while the expendi- 
tures had been slightly under $2100. Of the expenses, the largest separate dis- 
bursement was $784.92 for farming operations; nearly $750 was spent for the bene- 
fit of "Battery F" and the Andover men at Camp Devens; and there were smaller 
appropriations for the Home Guard. In general, as Mr. Ripley truthfully said, 
"the outlay for expenses was not large, and the money was well used." The Fi- 
nance Committee had exercised its powers with discretion and economy. 

During the year 1918 the expenditures of the Committee of Public Safety 
somewhat decreased, and it was deemed unnecessary to make any further appeal 
to the town for funds, especially in view of the numerous calls for contributions 
made by the various "drives" and loans. By conservative management the Fi- 
nance Committee arrived at the close of hostilities with an actual balance to its 
credit, an achievement which speaks volumes for the sagacity with which its affairs 
were administered. 



THE FOOD PRODUCTION COMMITTEE 

By Frederick H. Jones, Chairman 

The Food Production Committee was appointed by the Public Safety Com- 
mittee immediately after our country's entrance into the worid war. Meetings 
were held with representatives of the Grange, leading vegetable gardeners, and 
mill owners, to plan for an increased food production for our town. The interest 
shown and the cooperation of our townspeople made the plans successful from the 
first. 

Patriotic citizens at once offered the use of land in different parts of the town, 
the purchase of seeds and fertilizer was undertaken by the Committee, the lands 
were carefully ploughed, fertilized, and divided into workable size gardens, and a 
garden supervisor was engaged. 

The first year found the regular gardeners planting more land and devoting a 
larger portion of their land to potatoes, beans, cabbage, and turnips. The small 
gardener, who cultivated his individual garden, was advised by the supervisor, and 
seventy-eight of these gardens were planted and developed on the lands donated 
by our citizens. The applicants for these gardens not using the entire land, the 
remaining portion was used by the Committee for potatoes, and a crop sufficient 
to meet the expense was harvested and sold. 

The ladies of the town, working with the Food Production Committee, or- 
ganized a Canning Club and were allowed by the School Committee the use of one 



64 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

of the basements of the Punchard School and there faithfully and successfully pre- 
served not only vegetables but fruits, and the sales of their products yielded a 
profit at the end of the season. 

The work of the Production Committee was continued during the war, but 
after the first year the interest, individually, was such that less supervision was 
needed, and our paid supervisor, enlisting for overseas work, was not replaced. 
The crops raised were greater than the first year, due largely to experience gained by 
the gardeners and the planting of vegetables which could be used during the win- 
ter months. 

The school children's gardens, which necessarily were small, were productive, 
and in many cases, working with the Canning Committee, the children not only 
raised but helped to preserve their vegetables. 

In increasing the acreage planted and the vegetables raised, special credit 
should be given to the loyal and patriotic farmers, composed largely of members 
of the Grange, and the donators of the land, without which many of the individual 
gardens would have been impossible, the cooperation and assistance given by the 
factories of the town, and the splendid work of the canning organization, which 
was educational, practical, and most successful. 



THE VOLUNTEER AID COMMITTEE 

The labors of the Volunteer Aid Committee were mainly occupied with the 
important task of preparing for any possible local emergency. As a preliminary 
step, the Committee, under the direction of Mr. Burton S. Flagg, the Chairman, 
established a policy of effective cooperation with the other relief organizations of 
the town, including the Red Cross and the Selectmen. Lists were at once pre- 
pared of physicians, trained nurses, motor trucks, automobiles and drivers, sur- 
plus mattresses and blankets, men available for guard or errand duty, and gradu- 
ates of Red Cross first-aid classes. The responsibility for calling upon any of these 
resources was placed with an Emergency Relief Unit. 

As matters turned out, the demands upon the Volunteer Aid Committee were 
comparatively few. The Home Service Committee of the American Red Cross 
was able to care for most of the needs of soldiers' dependents; and there were for- 
tunately no disasters in the town or its vicinity of such a nature as to require the 
assistance of the Emergency Relief Unit. Had there been anysuch demand, how- 
ever, the town would have been found ready; and the preparation and organiza- 
tion which the Volunteer Aid Committee had perfected is deserving of special 
commendation. 



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THE LOCAL SURVEY COMMITTEE 

It was, of course, essential to secure in some way an accurate estimate of the 
available resources of the town in material and man power. The Local Survey 
Committee, of which Mr. John H. Campion was Chairman, was entrusted with this 
task. Shortly after our entrance into the war a canvass of the town was made to 
ascertain the number of automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, and bicycles in the 
community, and each was listed so that it could be commandeered in case of ne- 
cessity. Later a census was taken of skilled workmen, and a list was prepared 
showing 274 carpenters, plumbers, masons, machinists, painters, blacksmiths, and 
other tradesmen. The Committee fulfilled its functions with care, and accumu- 
lated a mass of information of the highest value. 



THE COMMITTEE ON ADVICE TO ALIENS 

The proportion of enemy aliens in Andover being almost negligibly small, 
the Committee on Advice to Aliens was occupied mainly with the task of inducing 
citizens of other countries to take out their papers for American citizenship. As 
early as Wednesday, April 11, 1917, Mr. WiUiam C. Crowley, the Chairman, called 
together his colleagues, and reports were presented from the superintendents of 
the various manufacturing plants within the town showing the number of foreign- 
ers employed by them. The roll of employees showed fifty-five foreigners in the 
Smith and Dove factory and 130 in the Tyer Rubber Company establishment; but 
of these nearly all were English, Scotch or Irish, and almost all who were able- 
bodied sooner or later entered the military service of their native countries. The 
policy was soon announced by the important manufacturing corporations within 
the town of employing none but American citizens; and, through the Committee 
on Advice to Aliens, a considerable number of foreigners were persuaded to take out 
citizenship papers in this country. 



THE HEALTH COMMITTEE 

The Health Committee, consisting of Dr. Charles E. Abbott (Chairman), 
Dr. J. J. Daly, and Mrs. Bartlett H. Hayes, held its first meeting on April 
14, 1914. It was thought best at this time to make further additions to 
the committee with the idea of avoiding any interference with the work already 
being done so ably and systematically by other organizations in the town. To this 



66 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

end, therefore, Mrs. Markham W. Stackpole, Mrs. George F. French, and Miss 
Emily Sprague, each representing some phase of pubHc health interest in Andover, 
were added to the original group. 

On May 28, 1917 there was held, at the State House in Boston, a meeting of 
the Chairmen of the Committees on Hygiene, Medicine, and Sanitation through- 
out the Commonwealth. It was discovered at this gathering that there was a 
lack of proper cooperation in the work of many organizations in the state, much 
time, money, and effort being wasted through the want of united effort by many 
societies, all working presumably towards the same ultimate end, but by devious 
routes; and it was found that the amount and unanimity of the work which had 
been done in Andover, even months before the organizations for general prepared- 
ness, was far in advance of any other city or town, with one or two exceptions, 
there represented. It then became obvious that the work accomplished by local 
committees should be so arranged that the aggregate total in the state should ade- 
quately represent the sum total of personal and organized effort, and also that 
such work should aid in every possible way the local and state health depart- 
ments. The work accomplished by the Health Committee in Andover, then, was 
along these lines, and represents the accomplishment of the various local organi- 
zations included under the Health Committee. 

The so-called relief unit, — later called the Emergency Relief Unit, — formu- 
lated a scheme which was typewritten and placed in the hands of the members of 
the committee and of all the physicians in the town. It gave the names and tele- 
phone numbers of the members of the committee, and of doctors, trained nurses, 
and graduates of the Red Cross First Aid Classes ; the addresses and telephone 
numbers of owners of motor trucks and automobiles, and of drivers who had 
signified their willingness to respond night or day to emergency calls; and valua- 
ble information regarding places of refuge, hospital supplies, stretchers, mat- 
tresses, and blankets, with directions for obtaining the aid, when necessary, of 
Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and Phillips Academy students. 

The Chairman, Dr. Abbott, made three special trips to Camp Devens and 
two to Boxford to care for the welfare of the young men from Andover, and he 
vaccinated and inoculated against typhoid many of the early volunteers from the 
town. 

During the terrible influenza epidemicof the autumn of 1918 the Health Com- 
mittee suddenly found itself very busy. The resources of the town for caring for 
the sick were unexpectedly stretched to the utmost, and, had it not been for the 
coolness and careful preparation of the members of that committee, widespread 
havoc might have ensued. Dr. Abbott, the Chairman, was indefatigable in his 
labors, and the other physicians of the town did heroic service, caring nothing for 
compensation but simply striving to see as many patients as possible in a day. 
The ladies on the committee made broth and carried it at regular intervals to the 
infested houses ; and a little group actually undertook to nurse sufferers through 




Company H, 16th Regiment, MAssAcuLbhu js State Guard 




Scene at Emery Hill iW'-i ii.m , l \\\ri:xce, during the Influenza Epidemic 



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the critical periods of the disease. The service performed was limited only by the 
opportunities offered, for there was no one who shirked responsibility or who de- 
clined to help. The consequence of this united effort was evident in the mortality 
lists, which were shorter in proportion to the inhabitants than those in practically 
any town in the state. 

The advice and experience of the District Health Officer were placed through- 
out the war period at the disposal of the committee. In general the Health Com- 
mittee formed a point of contact between the Public Safety Committee and the 
State Committee, and thus lent a hand in the endeavors for which the Committee 
on Public Safety was formed. 



THE STATE GUARD COMMITTEE 
By George A. Christie 

Of all the organizations which represented the town of Andover during the 
days of the war, none acquitted itself with greater credit than its company of 
State Guard. Recruited from the ranks of laborers, factory operatives, tradesmen, 
farmers, business men, professional men — in fact from every walk in life — it 
served for over two years and answered every call made upon it, no matter when or 
where, or what the cost might be. Company H of the 16th M. S. G. was Ando- 
ver's company of civilian soldiers, and it upheld the honor of the town — a no mean 
honor — in a manner in keeping with Andover traditions of patriotism and loy- 
alty. 

When war was declared on April 6, 1917, it was immediately followed by the 
calling out of the National Guard all over the land for Federal service. The Bay 
State men were among the first to respond and were soon in training for their 
overseas work. This left the Commonwealth without defenders in case of riot, 
catastrophe, epidemic, or even invasion, and it was to meet such emergency that 
the Massachusetts State Guard came into being. Originally recruited as a Home 
Guard, with each company independent of the other, it readily became apparent 
that cooperation, under a centralized head, was necessary for efficiency and ser- 
vice. The State Guard board was formed with headquarters at Boston, Brigadier 
General Butler Ames of Lowell being placed in command. Eleven regiments of 
infantry were organized, together with a motor corps of four companies, one troop 
of cavalry, and a fully equipped portable hospital, with surgeons, physicians, 
specialists, and a large staff of skilled nurses. Companies were assigned to regi- 
ments in convenient geographical locations, and as far as possible the regiments 
were named to take the place of the National Guard regiments which had preceded 



70 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

them. The Eighth Regiment was located in Essex county, and the new regiment 
was named the Sixteenth. In less than six months Massachusetts had a well 
drilled force of over 10,000 men ready to cope with any emergency likely to arise 
within the State confines during the period of the war. 

A few days after war had been declared the call for Andover's company was 
answered by nearly 100 men of the town who met in the Town Hall; and after a 
brief statement of facts and purposes by Bartlett H. Hayes, who was the leading 
spirit in the movement, Edgar G. Holt gave the command "Fall-in." He became 
captain and, although he was later made major of the second battalion of the 
16th Regiment, his heart was always with the Andover company, and it might well 
be called "Holt's Own." None of the men who heard that command ever forgot 
it. There were no preliminaries. It was business from the start. After a few 
drills in the Town Hall it became apparent that the accommodations were too 
limited for satisfactory work, and through the courtesy of the Trustees of Phillips 
Academy the Borden Gymnasium and its equipment was placed at the disposal 
of Andover's company, and it remained its armory until the company was mus- 
tered out on July, 5, 1919. 

The Andover company made its first public appearance on Memorial Day, 
May 30, 1917, as a Home Guard Company in command of Edgar G. Holt, captain, 
with Peirson S. Page and Percival Dove as lieutenants and Markham W. Stack- 
pole, as top sergeant. The marching of the men was a great surprise to the towns- 
people and created a very favorable impression. Marching, however, was not 
what the company was organized for, and at the next meeting it was decided to 
become a part of the State Guard. On July 5, 1917 fifty -one men passed the rigid 
physical test and were mustered into the service of the State, Col. Henry L. Kin- 
caid administering the oath. 

The following men became the 114th company of the Massachusetts State 
Guard : 

Chester D. Abbott Frederick H. Hall 

George E. Abbott Nathan C. Hamblin 

John F. Anderson Edgar G. Holt 

Jesse S. Billington Henry S. Hopper 

Henry A. Bod well Robert C. Kibbee 

Roy H. Bradford C. Carlton Kimball 

Elmer E. Bridges David S. Lindsay 

J. Walter Brown Thomas Low 

Frank A. Buttrick Alfred J. Lundgren 

David B. Campbell George E. Merrill 

George W. Campbell Harry LeRoy Murphy 

Peter Campbell James K. NicoU 

Gordon R. Cannon Michael J. O'Connor 



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Gerard Chapin Emile J. Paquette 

George A. Christie Alfred Robb 

Arthur H. Coates David B. Robb 

Arthur N. Comeau Albert Ruhl 

Joseph Connelly Peirson S. Page 

Percival Dove Philip Stearns 

Charles W. Davis William A. Stevens 

John Deyermond Charles D. Thompson 

Robert Dobbie Augustus P. Thompson 

Theodore L. Dodge Henry G. Tyer 

James M. Gorrie Harold K. Veazie 

John S. Gorrie Eugene M. Weeks 
W. Dudley Yates 

Some of the men who had been in the Home Guard Company found that for 
business reasons they could not give the time to the State Guard and dropped out. 
They were Percival Dove, who was commissioned in September, 1917, as major in 
the Ordnance Corps; Bartlett H. Hayes, the organizer of the company, who en- 
listed and served overseas with the rank of major; Claude M. Fuess, second 
lieutenant, who became head of the personnel division at Camp Johnston and was 
commissioned major; and Markham W. Stackpole, who gave his services to the 
government and went overseas with the artillery of the 26th division. He was 
chaplain of the 102nd Field Artillery with the rank of captain and was decorated 
for his gallant conduct. 

With the company part of the State troops, interest grew and others enlisted 

in theAndover company from time to time. Those who later took the oath and 
were mustered in during the life of the company were : 

John C. Angus Hiland F. Holt 

John R. Bacon Ernest C. King 

Kirk R. Batcheller Frederick H. Ladd 

Arthur Bliss Harold W. Leitch 

Albert Brearley William Lewallen 

Edwin T. Brewster William R. McCulla 

Sharon O. Brown James H. Morss 

Frank L. Carrie Alexander M. Ness 

Albert Crowther James Page 

Edward Downs Frank L. Quinby 

Francis Geddry David H. Rae 

Leon J. Germain Philip F. Ripley 

Claremont Gray Lewis C. Rokes 

Harold Gray Charles H. Ross 



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Roy S. Haggard James E. Smythe 

Roy E. Hardy Roland W. Thompson 

Arthur T. Harkins Oswald W. Tower 

Amos Henault Frank S. Valentine 
Jesse West 

Company H organized with Edgar G. Holt, captain; Peirson S. Page, first 
lieutenant; and Percival Dove, second lieutenant. Capt. Holt was destined to 
remain as leader of the company for but a short time. In August he was made 
major and placed in command of the second battalion of the 16th regiment to 
which the Andover company was assigned. Competitive examinations were held 
for non-commissioned officers which resulted in the following being assigned : 

Jesse B. Billington, first sergeant Henry A. Bodwell, corporal 

Gordon R. Cannon, supply sergeant William A. Stevens, corporal 

Gerard Chapin, sergeant David B. Robb, corporal 

Henry G. Tyer, sergeant J. Walter Brown, corporal 

Nathan C. Hamblin, sergeant W, Dudley Yates, corporal 

Charles D. Thompson, sergeant Alfred Robb, corporal 
Michael J. O'Connor, corporal 

Routine work, with efficiency the objective, kept the members of the company 
busy through the hot days of the summer of 1917 and well into the fall. The in- 
struction the men had received, however, was used to excellent advantage, and at 
the school of instruction opened at the Lawrence armory, the officers and enlisted 
men of Company H gave many of the men awaiting their call in the draft, their 
first steps in soldiery. Changes in the ranks were now frequent as the members 
enlisted or were called into the service. Major Holt had taken Lieutenant Dove 
and Quartermaster Sergeant Kimball along with him on his battalion staff, and 
acting Captain Page had a busy time keeping the ranks full. Young men, how- 
ever, recognized the worth of the State Guard training, and more than one who 
was a member of the Andover Company was made a "non-com" after a few weeks 
in the Federal Service. 

Three events marked the fall of 1917. One was the appointment of Peirson 
S. Page as captain, Gerard Chapin as first lieutenant, Jesse S. Billington as second 
lieutenant ; these officers commanded the company until its mustering out and 
gave lavishly of their time and energy to make Company H the best unit in the 
battalion. The two other events of note were the escort to the drafted men of 
Division 21 from Andover on October 5, and the big field day on Brothers Field by 
the second battalion on October 12, at which Major Holt, on behalf of Company 
H, presented Captain Page with a sword. 

The year 1918 opened with the State inspection by Col. Bailey of Amesbury, a 
veteran of the old 8th Massachusetts Infantry. He gave the men a rigid examina- 




Thomas W. Platt, Jr. 

Signal Quartermaster, U. S. Navy 

Died, October 14, 1918 



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tion and also a high mark for appearance and efficiency. The military camp at 
Phillips Academy was of benefit to the Andover company, and all the facilities of 
the camp were at the disposal of the State Guard. The indoor rifle range was 
given free of charge, and the shooting team of the company carried off battalion 
honors and was second in the regiment. Hikes, maneuvres, and night marches 
varied the usual routine, and the company was fully prepared for the week under 
canvas at Camp Gardner, Framingham, the last week in July. It was a real test 
for the men, a number of whom were nearing the half century mark. Under a 
tropical sun they stuck to their posts so well that Louis S. Cox, colonel of the 
regiment, commended the Andover men on their efficient work in camp. It was a 
compliment to Captain Page that he was chosen the first officer of the day, while 
the camp was being placed in running order. Daily regimental setting up drills 
were also under his direction. Just before going to Framingham, Private Frank A. 
Buttrick was promoted to first lieutenant of the Headquarters Company of the 
regiment. 

The real test of the discipline and training of the men came in the fall. The 
influenza epidemic was sweeping the country, and the Merrimack Valley was es- 
pecially hard hit. An emergency hospital was established on Emery Hill, Law- 
rence, and placed in charge of the State Guard medical corps and soldiers. An- 
dover company was called on October 15th and in less than five hours was on 
duty. The men left their work at once and Captain Page took charge. 
Thousands of patients were treated at the tented hospital, but whether as 
orderlies at the hospital or on guard duty, the men of Co. H never flinched. 
A newspaper comment regarding the work of the Andover men, in answer 
to a criticism by a civilian physician who resented the military discipline at 
Emery Hill, is interesting. He wrote: "While visiting Emery Hill base hospital 
I wandered into the camp of Co. H of Andover and was impressed with the 
military aspects of the streets. Everything was spick and span and a won- 
derful change had taken place since Captain Page has been in command. It 
is true that the Lawrence company did all the hard work the first week and about 
all they received besides their $1.55 a day, were kicks and abuse by "slacker" 
writers. It is also true that military discipline was somewhat lax, but that cannot 
be said now. The Lawrence men who volunteered as a detail to help out the An- 
dover company appreciate the change and told Capt. Page they would stay just 
as long as he stayed. American Democracy evidently appreciates this kind of 
'Kaiserism rampant on Emery Hill.' " 

Company H remained for two weeks through the worst of the epidemic, which 
caused many deaths daily; yet not a case of illness was recorded among the men 
although they were constantly in touch with the deadly disease. This was a 
real service and was cheerfully given and at a time when the call for men and 
nurses for overseas service was at its peak. 



76 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

While at Emery Hill first sergeant Henry G. Tyer enlisted in the National 
army and was succeeded by Nathan C. Hamblin, who served until the company 
was mustered out of service. Sergeant Tyer was a very efficient and faithful officer. 

The signing of the Armistice on November 11 did not terminate the work of 
Company H. Labor troubles and the possibility of an outbreak in Lawrence kept 
the men busy preparing for such an emergency. Fortunately their services were 
not required. The men did not neglect their drills, and the rifle range at Wakefield 
gave an opportunity for many to qualify as marksmen and sharpshooters, and 
one was rated as an expert. The list of marksmen: Lieut. Billington, Sergt. 
Bradford, Sergt. Bodwell, Sergt. Stevens, Sergt. Yates, Corp. D. B. Robb, First 
class privates, Davis and King, Privates McCulla and Smyth; sharpshooters, 
Lieut. Billington, Sergt. Bradford; expert, Sergt. Bradford. As the spring of 
1919 passed the order to reduce the number of State Guard companies was is- 
sued. It is a matter worthy of record that Andover was selected as one of the 
companies to be retained. The fact, however, that there was no armory in An- 
dover prevented the Andover men from remaining in the service, and in May it 
was voted to seek discharge. The company made its last public appearance on 
Memorial Day and in July Co. H passed into history. 

The roster of the company at the time of its mustering out was as follows : 

Captain; Peirson S. Page, 193 Main street 

First Lieutenant; Gerard Chapin, Morton street 

Second Lieutenant; Jesse S. Billington, 3 Highland Wayside 

First Sergeant; Nathan C. Hamblin, 117 Chestnut street 

Sergeant; Henry A. Bodwell, Morton street 

Sergeant; William A. Stevens, Allen court 

Supply Sergeant; W. Dudley Yates, 105 Chestnut street 

Mess Sergeant; George A. Christie, 115 Chestnut street 

Sergeant; Roy H. Bradford, Main street 

Sergeant; Alfred Robb, High street 

Corporal; Eugene M. Weeks, 19 Wolcott avenue 

Corporal; Frederick H. Ladd, 56 Whittier street 

Corporal; David H. Rae, 9 Chapman court 

Corporal; Roland W. Thompson, 6 Bumham road 

Corporal; Philip F. Ripley, 7 Abbott street 

Corporal; Michael J. O'Connor, 8 Harding street 

Corporal; David B. Robb, 6 Morton street 

First Class Privates; 

Chester D. Abbott, 119 Red Spring road 

John C. Angus, 119 Main street 

Edwin T. Brewster, Judson road 

Kirk R. Batcheller, 5 Hidden road 



COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY 77 

Charles W. Davis, Harding street 

John Deyermond, 2 Brechin Terrace 

Robert Dobbie, 6 Maple avenue 

Hiland F. Holt, Main street 

Henry S. Hopper, 69 Salem street 

Ernest C. King, 48 Elm street 

Harold W. Leitch, Trinity Court, North Andover 

James E. Smythe, 60 Red Spring road 

Oswald Tower, 32 Phillips street 

Henry G. Tyer, Morton street 

Harold K. Veazie, 1 Highland Wayside 



Privates: 



Musicians: 

Cooks: 

Mechanics: 
Clerk: 



George E. Abbott, 72 Maple avenue 

John Anderson, Harding street 

John R. Bacon, 11 Pine street 

Arthur J. Boucher, 25 Brechin Terrace 

Albert Brearley, 16 Russell street. North Andover 

George W. Campbell, Abbott street 

Peter Campbell, 4 Brechin Terrace 

Arthur N. Comeau, Highland road 

Joseph Connolly, 31 Shawsheen road 

Francis Geddry, 8 Brechin Terrace 

Arthur T. Harkins, 66 High street 

Amos Henault, 7 Brechin Terrace 

William Lewallen, 10 Wolcott avenue 

Thomas Low, Jr., 17 Cuba street 

Alfred J. Lundgren, 53 Whittier street 

William R. McCulla, 33 Chestnut street 

James H. Morss, 75 Chestnut street 

James Page, Burnham road 

Albert Ruhl, 86 Summer street 

Frank S. Valentine, 20 Elm street 

Arthur Bliss, Highland road 

David S. Lindsay, 47 Summer street 

Frederick Hall, Essex street 
Jesse West, 15 Florence street 

James M. Gorrie, 18 Brechin Terrace 

George A. Christie 



78 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

At the banquet of the company in the Peabody House in January, 1919, Col. 
Cox, alluding to the spirit prevailing in the Andover company, spoke of Phillips 
Academy and the town, which for more than 100 years had never mixed. He said 
the State Guard had accomplished something which no other agency had been 
able to do in all these years — it had brought the men of the Hill and the men of 
the Town together; if for no other reason than this, the State Guard had justified 
its existence. By comparing the street addresses of the members of the company 
at its mustering out it will be readily seen that every section of the town was 
represented in Company H, and that instructors in the Academy and teachers in 
other schools took orders from the worker in the factory. It was the true Andover 
spirit of democracy. 

Company H had probably the oldest State guardsman in service, James C. 
Hunter, who in spite of his nearly three score years and ten, scarcely missed a drill 
until the time of his discharge in January, 1918. Two other members were 
obliged to leave because of inability to pass the physical test : William Benson, 
who died during the influenza epidemic, and Corporal James Low, who afterwards 
enlisted in the Canadian expeditionary forces and saw service overseas. 

Company H had a record of men in the service second to none. Members of 
the company served with distinction in the American and Allied forces, and the 
number who went from the ranks was not excelled by any other company in the 
State Guard. Not only was the number large, but the records of the men brought 
honor to the company and the Town of Andover. One of them. Private Charles A. 
Young, was the first Andover boy with the American forces to give his life for the 
cause. Others rendered valiant service, and no man had a more brilliant record 
than the organizer of the company, Bartlett H. Hayes. He went overseas with the 
American forces in the infantry branch of the service and was made a major on the 
field of battle. Out on the front line where men were face to face with death, 
another leader in the State Guard, Markham W.Stackpole, gave spiritual comfort 
to the boys as they passed to the Great Beyond. There was hardly a branch of the 
service which did not have a representative from Company H of the State Guard, 
Here is the honor roll of the Company : 

Private Charles A. Young, Co. F., 101st Inf., Died of wounds, August, 1918. 

Service Roll 

Major Bartlett H. Hayes, Infantry, France. 

Major Percival Dove, Ordnance Corps. 

Major Claude M. Fuess, Quartermaster Corps. 

Capt. Markham W. Stackpole, Chaplain, 102d F. A., 26th Division. 

Capt. Philip W. Thomson, Headquarters Company, 76th Division, A. E. F. 

Capt. Charles D. Thomson, Aircraft Construction Dept., Washington, D. C. 

Sergt. Alexander M. Ness, 302d M. G. Battalion, France. 



COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY 79 

Sergt. Sharon O. Brown, Headquarters Company, Camp Devens. 

Sergeant C. Carlton Kimball, Camp Devens. 

Corp. David B. Campbell, 8th Field Amb. Casuals, C. E. F., Siberia. 

Private Charles H. Ross, 8th Field Ambulance, C. E. F. 

Private James Low, Aero Signal Corps, C. E. F., France. 

First-Class Private Edward Downs, 55th C. A. C, 3d Regiment, France. 

Private Frank L. Carrie, 55th C. A. C, 3d Regt., France. 

Private Roy E. Hardy, Co. N, 116th Engineers, A. E. F. 

Private James K. Nicol, Canadians. 

Private Lewis C. Rokes, North Andover, U. S. Cavalry. 

Private Charles W. Davis, limited service. 

First-Class Private Claremont I.N. Gray, U. S. Army, Camp Devens. 

Private Harold Gray, U. S. Army. 

Capt. Augustus P. Thompson, Red Cross, France. 

Frank L. Quinby, Athletic Instructor, France. 

Private Roy S. Haggard, Government Service, Sheffield, Ala. 

Andover's company in the State Guard was organized for the specific purpose 
of providing a measure of protection to the citizens of the town in cases of emer- 
gency. It was not intended for service outside the State, but, had the call come, its 
members would have volunteered as readily as they did on every occasion during 
the two years of its existence. It was a valuable training for the men who went 
across and for the men who stayed at home. Its record was an honorable one and 
worthy of its place in the annals of the town. 



IV 
THE LIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGNS 

By Burton S. Flagg 

THE first call for organized effort in selling Liberty Loans at Andover was re- 
ceived from the Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, in a 
letter addressed to Mr. Nathaniel Stevens, President of the Andover Na- 
tional Bank. 

President Stevens called a meeting of the Finance Committee of Public 
Safety to be held in the Lower Town Hall, Andover, on Saturday, May 19th, 
1917, at 8.00 p.m., to consider the organization of a Liberty Loan Committee for 
Andover and North Andover. 

The following memoranda are taken from the minutes of the early meet- 
ings of this committee: 

" Mr. Nathaniel Stevens was elected temporary Chairman and Mr. George Abbot 
temporary Secretary. 

Voted: That the Liberty Loan Committee of Andover and North Andover consist 
of the Finance Committees of Public Safety of both towns, together with John H. 
Campion, John N. Cole, Harry M. Fames, Burton S. Flagg, Frederick H. Jones, John 
H. McDonald, Samuel D. Stevens, and James J. Murray. The following permanent 
officers were elected : 

Nathaniel Stevens, Chairman 
Alfred L. Ripley, Vice-Chairman 
Chester W. Holland, Secretary. 

Voted: That the Chairman appoint an Executive Committee to carry on the active 
work." 

A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Liberty Loan Committee of 
Andover and North Andover was held on Thursday evening. May 24th, at 8.00 
p.m., in the banking room of the Andover National Bank. 
At this meeting were present: 

Messrs. Nathaniel Stevens James J. Murray 

Alfred L. Ripley Harry R. Dow 

John H. Campion John H. McDonald 

Burton S. Flagg James C. Sawyer 

C. W. Holland 

Plans were discussed at some length regarding the best method to be used in 
directing the Liberty Loan in Andover and North Andover. It was finally moved 




John Joseph Murphy 

Sergeant, 101st Infantry, U. S. Army 

Killed in action, October 27, 1918 



182 ] 



THELIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGNS 83 

and seconded that the following committees and committee chairmen be ap- 
pointed, who were, in turn, authorized to choose members for their respective 
committees, to aid the floating of the Liberty Loan in Andover and North An- 
dover. 



Manufacturers' Committee George F. Smith, Chairman 

Committee on Social Organizations — Andover, Fred G. Cheney 

North Andover, James J. Murray 

Women's Clubs and Women's Social Organizations 

Andover, Mrs. James C. Sawyer 
North Andover, Miss Kate H. Stevens 

Committee on Churches and Church Organizations 

Andover and North Andover, Frederic S. Boutwell 

Committee on Grange Andover, George Averill 

North Andover, Peter Holt 

Committee on Schools and Teachers Andover, Henry C. Sanborn 

North Andover, Dana P. Dame 

Phillips and Abbot Academies James C. Sawyer 

Committee on Publicity John N. Cole 

Committee on Speakers Mr. Ripley and Judge Dow 

At the request of the chairman, Alfred L. Ripley, Esq., gave a brief talk re- 
garding Government Loans and also the facts pertaining to the United States 
Government 3}^% Loan, known as the "Liberty Loan." 

The several organizations were approached, and the First Liberty Loan 
Campaign was discussed before the members by the presidents of the following 
organizations, either at regular or special meetings: 

Garfield Lodge — James Soutar. 
L O. O. F., Andover Lodge, — David Leslie. 
Shawsheen Lodge, Ballardvale, — Elizabeth Bruce. 
Lincoln Lodge, — Lincoln Gates. 



84 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

Royal Arcanum, — Warren L. Johnson. 

Andover Canoe Club, — Horace Hale Smith. 

Grand Army, — George W. Chandler. 

Hibernians, — David Lynch. 

Ballardvale, L O. G. T., — D. H. Poor. 

Sons of Veterans, — Elmer E. Philbrick. 

Clan Johnston, — Samuel R. Harris. 

Masons, — M. B. McTemen. 

R. C. O. A. — Harry Sellars. 

Andover Club, — David Lawson. 

Degree of Honor, — Mrs. Joseph H. Nuckley. 

Rebekahs, — Mrs. George E. Holt. 

Ladies' Auxiliary to Clan Johnston, — Mrs. Graw. 

Women's Relief Corps, — Mrs. Franklin S. Valentine. 

Mothers' Club, — Mrs. James Feeney. 

Bradlee Mothers' Club, — Mrs. Ralph Bruce. 

Tuesday Club, — Mrs. John V. Holt. 

November Club, — Miss Kate Swift. 

The first and second loans were handled by this organization jointly. The 
third, fourth, and fifth were managed by each town individually, the Federal 
Reserve Bank having allotted a definite amount to Andover based upon its bank- 
ing resources and assessed values of real and personal property. These amounts 
were very considerably in excess of the allotment to other towns upon a per capita 
basis, mainly because the Andover Savings Bank, representing one of the larger 
institutions of this class in the State, was located in Andover. 



ORGANIZATION 



The preliminary meetings of the solicitors were held at the Insurance Offices 
in the Bank Building. There was seldom an absentee from these meetings. The 
group of solicitors were carefully trained as to the technical features of each loan, 
their maturity, their dates, the amounts, interest and tax features, and were thor- 
oughly instructed as to the answers to various questions and problems. 

In the later loans, the Andover National Bank took care of the full payment 
or cash plan : the installment or ten monthly payment arrangement was conducted 
in the Andover Savings Bank and affected largely those who purchased bonds in 
fifty and one hundred dollar denominations. 



THE LIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGNS 85 

All reports as far as possible were made daily, and credits were received from 
the Federal Reserve Bank each day for subscriptions made by Andover f>eople, 
whether at home or in other towns and through other than local banks. Nearly 
every Andoverian saw to it that his home town received credit for his subscrip- 
tion, and it was most gratifying to find how many purchasers elsewhere endeavored 
personally to follow up the Andover record to make sure that their home town did 
actually receive the credit. 

The working personnel of the Andover organization remained practically in- 
tact throughout the several campaigns. 

Many avenues of approach were adopted to acquaint the public with the 
various phases of the loans. Leaflets were furnished in many languages for dis- 
tribution to those who were not familiar with English. Posters, literature, and 
stickers for each loan were allotted a township upon the basis of population, and 
prior to the solicitation for each loan in Andover, distribution was made by the 
Andover Boy Scouts in all public places, stores, homes, railroad stations, churches, 
garages, and mills. 

The cooperation of the Boy Scouts, under the direction of Scout Master 
Henry G. Tyer, was noteworthy in the punctuality, intelligence, and fine spirit 
displayed. The conspicuous workers in behalf of the Boy Scouts were : Knowlton 
Stone, Daniel Allen, Harold Robbins, Allen Buttrick, F. Tyler Carleton, Frederick 
Cole, Leslie Monan, Geoffrey Nichol, Lawrence Reed, Windsor Wade. The local 
organization accomplished so much that the members were utilized in all 
Liberty Loan work where possible. They often assisted as messengers, made 
house to house distribution, spread Liberty Loan propaganda, and made them- 
selves generally useful 

The Colonial Theatre, under the management of Mr. Resnik, cooperated to 
all extent possible in the local presentation of war pictures. These films were 
made by the motion picture industries at large expense and were government 
property. 

The Executive Committee relied upon a wide publicity through: 

1. Local newspaper space for educational purposes, and much reading 
space in addition. 

2. Acquaintance with and capable presentation of loan features by the so- 
licitors to the individual purchaser. 

3. Distribution of circulars to every householder. 

4. Advertising by representative business men and citizens. 

5. Loan advertisements contributed by some firm or individual. (The 
Andover Townsman issued April 3, 1918, carried 38 advertisers who sent 
special Liberty Loan copy. The spirit of all advertisers was "Use as 
much of my space as you wish.") 



86 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

The large posters eflfected wonderful accomplishment, particularly in the 
Fourth and Fifth Loans. Convincing posters were used to prevent citizens from 
disposing of Liberty Bonds for other securities. Solicitors reported that one of 
the most telling cards of distribution throughout Andover was "If you haven't 
bought Liberty Bonds, don't talk war around here." 

For the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Campaigns, a clock arrangement was in- 
stalled on the Bank Building, indicating day by day the local progress of the Loan. 

The government, through the Treasury Department, had arranged to award 
every Liberty Loan worker a medal for patriotic service in behalf of the Liberty 
Loans. These were made from captured German cannon, and were distributed 
at the close of the Liberty Loan campaigns as a distinct recognition of the service 
of the Liberty Loan workers. 

Two helmets were awarded to each town. One helmet was given to the per- 
son through whose definite influence the largest amount of subscriptions during 
the various loans was received. This helmet was presented to George F. Smith, 
in view of his patriotic undertakings. The second helmet was damaged in transit 
and was so entirely incomplete that it could not be used. 

The Executive Committee were ably assisted in the Fourth and Fifth drives 
by the Women's Committee, chairmaned in the Fourth Campaign by Mrs. James 
Cowan Sawyer, and in the Fifth, by Mrs. John Voorhis Holt. 

. Their efforts amplified in no uncertain way the men's organization already in 
trim, and the Executive Committee only wish that the women's organization had 
been actively participating in previous loans, all of which would have resulted in 
even larger quotas both in Andover and elsewhere. 



FIRST LIBERTY LOAN 

The first loan largely represented free investment capital. No appeal to sell 
the bonds upon business grounds was made. They were taken by those who had 
money on hand or who could sell securities to raise the amount of their subscrip- 
tion. The result was liquidation of some proportions. 

The solicitors were instructed to encourage the installment plan of pay- 
ment, but to discourage withdrawals from banks, or the sale of securities. The 
Andover National Bank was the agency for the partial or installment payment 
plan. 

The operation of this issue had naturally many complications. Human na- 
ture in the men and women would many times object to the low interest yield. 



THE LIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGNS 



87 



The Government studied this delicate situation and its plans for the second 
Liberty Loan were accordingly more clearly set forth: the seriousness of 
the current problems, what was being done with the money, the relation of the in- 
terest to the loan itself, the financial condition of the country and the protection of 
other investments, and many other factors that were essential in so gigantic a 
task. 

The partial payment plan contemplated ten payments of an equal amount 
each month, commencing July 15, 1917, upon the maturity of which the pur- 
chaser received his first Liberty Bond. 

Huge as it was, the absorption of this loan was a warning for Germany. 
Although it was large, it made no such demand on our resources as did the 
$500,000,000 loan in 1862, which amounted to 3.33% of the total wealth of the 
Northern States and was sold direct to the people in currency at par. Our 
First Liberty Loan amounted to 3.39% of our National wealth, but our per capita 
wealth was $2000 as against $500 in '62. 

Advertising propaganda was used to no particular extent in floating this loan. 
Nor were marked efforts made to urge our people to make drastic reforms in their 
mode of life. The local Committee, however, endeavored to acquaint all people 
through the local press and limited advertising, as to the methods of payment, 
the place of subscription, and the care of the bond. Many purchasers had never 
owned a bond before. 

The First Liberty Bond Sale closed at noon, June 15, 1917, and Andover and 
North Andover, doing as was expected, raised their allotment and several thou- 
sands of dollars besides, which did not pass directly through the Andover Banks 
but for which the Andovers received credit. The results were as follows : 



Allotment ..... 
Total amount sold 

Ten Payment Plan .... 
Government Installment plan . 
Cash Purchases .... 
Record Day, June 8th 

Number of Contributors, 



$400,000 
434,250 
132,550 
158,100 
143,600 
158,950 



193] 



On June 20, 1917, the Executive Committee publicly expressed their deep 
appreciation of all that had been done to make the Liberty Loan successful, stating 
that "our Andover people have not only lived up to their traditions, but have 
proved loyal to the Government and the cause for which we fight." 

The total amount subscribed by the two towns in the first loan ranked high 
among the cities and towns of Massachusetts, and it ,vas believed, although no 
records were or are available, that from all sources, Andover presumably sub- 
scribed nearly $700,000. 



88 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

SECOND LIBERTY LOAN 

The Executive Committer of the "Liberty Loan Committee of Andover and 
North Andover," were called into session in November, 1917, at the Andover Na- 
tional Bank, to consider a Second Liberty Loan. 

The country had learned by experience that, if the raising of $2,000,000,000 
had caused liquidation, the raising of $3,000,000,000 as the Second Liberty Loan 
allotment, would cause 50% more liquidation. If that were the case, the war 
could never be financed. The campaign for the Second Loan was accordingly 
one of education. 

The Government stated that its sound cash position was the basis of a large 
amount of credit which would have no limit except what the citizens wished to 
make it. This support meant the backing, with money, of those industries on 
which the Government must depend for its supplies — transportation, farming, 
mining, and manufacture. 

The solicitors were impressed with the fact that buying bonds should mean 
real sacrifice; that less should be spent and more saved; that approximately one- 
half of the income of every individual of the Nation must go into government 
war loans and taxes; that the government must not be cramped; that her pro- 
gram must be carried out. 

The names of all possible subscribers in each household were listed, including 
the head of the house, adult children, servants, etc. Subscriptions were held con- 
fidential. People were urged to pay for the bonds out of current earnings, and 
the solicitor was told to ofTer his services in making arrangements with sub- 
scribers' employers, or otherwise, when necessary. Additional subscriptions 
were obtamed by suggesting to parents that subscriptions be made for their minor 
children. 

A systematic division of Andover was made comprising seven districts with 
captain and lieutenants for each. 

At the conclusion it was found that Andover and North Andover had again 
accomplished what they were asked to do, and far more, with a 

Total Amount of Bonds sold $1,249,950 

as against 

An Allotment of 672,000 

The Executive Committee expressed gratitude to all solicitors "for the thor- 
oughness of the work and fine spirit of cooperative effort in solicitation." They 
further requested that the present organization be kept intact for the Third Lib- 
erty Loan. 

The sense of a big task well done, — the sense of team work, — the co- 
operation between government and business, — the realization of the extent and 



THE LIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGNS 89 

value of the resources, — these and the lessons of thrift signalized the Second 
Liberty Loan Campaign. These provided the will, the heart, and the self-confi- 
dence for those loans yet to come. 



THIRD LIBERTY LOAN 

"A Bond in every home." 

In this loan, Andover and North Andover conducted their campaigns as 
separate and individual towns. The full or cash payments were made to the 
Andover National Bank, and installment payments were cared for in the Andover 
Savings Bank. 

The quota allotment for Andover was approximately $55, North Andover, 
$35, and Methuen, $25, per capita. This was the first loan in which the State 
used a County Organization, with the Chairman located at Salem, an arrange- 
ment which was continued throughout the remaining Liberty Loan Campaigns. 

At the rally meetings of the solicitors, emphasis was placed upon a wide 
distribution of the bonds among as many people as possible. All solicitors en- 
deavored to so dispose of the bonds that they would "stay put." This effort gave 
the citizens a livelier interest in the cause. 

The Andover organization which carried on the first and second loans had 
been built up in structure and detail, and was prepared for an interesting cam- 
paign. The executive direction had been broadened so that a clearer and more 
potent organization was ready to launch the local drive. The solicitors did 
not, therefore, find it so necessary to explain the technical features of the bond or 
the necessity of subscribing to the limit. The evident increased spirit of saving 
and the careful scrutiny of personal expenditures were noteworthy. 

Andover soon reached its quota and secured the Liberty Loan honor flag, 
which was suspended in front of the Bank Building. 

Accompanying the honor flag was a letter addressed to the Andover Liberty 
Loan Committee by the State Chairman, which read as follows: 

"I want to express my appreciation of your efforts which have so successfully 
carried the town beyond its quota. Such work as this all over the State has made the 
campaign a most successful one." 

It was found that Andover had produced more single subscriptions in the 
Third Loan than in either of the other two campaigns, and too, it was found that 
the labors of the solicitors had been of marked value to the public aside from the 
result in money loaned. 



90 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

The success of the campaign was due to well-prepared plans and careful dis- 
tribution. The loan got close to the people. Upon many an And over street every 
family had purchased one or more bonds. 

A portion of the Executive Committee's report to the workers in the third 
loan follows: 

"According to our records the final report of subscriptions in Andover, to the Third 
Liberty Loan, is as follows; 

1. Subscriptions reported by Local Banks direct to the Federal Re- 
serve Bank $500,000 

2. Subscriptions of citizens placed through Banks in other places 

and reported 265,600 



3. Total $765,600 

4. Deduct subscriptions of citizens of other districts placed through 

Local Banks and reported 171,500 



Net— 2192 Subscriptions $594,100 



FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN 

"Fighting Fourth." " Borrow and Buy". 
"Subscribe early and keep your bond" 

This loan was the largest financial transaction which had ever taken place in 
the world and was destined to be realized only by the most intensive and intelli- 
gent work. Andover knew that if the money was not forthcoming in loans from 
the people, the Government must conscript it by taxation. 

It was the first loan in which the women had participated in any thoroughly 
organized way. It was the first loan in which taxation features had to be carefully 
considered by solicitors because excess profits and other kinds of taxes were already 
affecting purchasers. 

The Executive Committee realized that the problem of getting actual buyers 
was correspondingly more serious. The campaign required three weeks. Parades 
and mass meetings were not featured. Attention was devoted entirely to the in- 
dividual solicitation in an overwhelming subscription. 

The circulars sent to the 1900 Andover householders and preceding the in- 
dividual solicitor, read as follows: 



THE LIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGNS 91 

TOMORROW 

JOIN THE FIGHTING FOURTH 

Andover's Allotment for the Fourth Liberty Loan 

Is More Than $700.000 

This must be raised in the next three weeks. It is a BIG UNDERTAKING which demands 
the support of each man, woman and child. 

Everybody Must Buy to the Utmost — 



As the Soldier Fights in France. 

Solicitors, men and women, will call at every home in town to take your subscription. Meet 
them with a hearty welcome and send them away with your share of the quota. 

Andover has never failed to do her full share 



She Will Not Fail This Ti 



1 m e 



The two banks will receive the subscriptions and do the necessary financing as follows: — 
The Andover National Bank will accept payments in full and on the Government Plan, viz: — 
10% on application 20% December 19, 1918 

20% November 21, 1918 20% January 16, 1919 

30% January 30, 1919, with interest adjustment. 
The Andover Savings Bank will accept payments on the monthly payment plan, full particulars of 
which will appear in the Andover Townsman and be supplied by the solicitors. 

Buy Bonds and Keep Them — Increase Your Holdings 
Dig In; Dig Deep; Dig Until It Hurts 
Act Quickly — Help the Committee in Charge 

All Europe is aflame! Your friends, your brothers, your sons are there, fighting the burning land. 
Will you stand idly by — or will you do your part to help put out the cruel fire? 

Keep the blue star blue 
Don't let it change to gold; 
The blue star will stay blue 
If every bond is sold. 

Will You Do Your Part? 

You Cannot Fight in France — So, Fight with the Fighting Fourth 



92 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

Andover had already raised in previous loans all the money for which the 
Government asked; yet, when the figures were closely scrutinized, they revealed a 
situation that was not altogether gratifying. The number of subscriptions was 
clearly short of the proper point. The people realized in the fourth loan the real 
consequence of being in the war. 

The solicitors were therefore impressed with the fact that a generous and 
general solicitation on the part of each person with small means was necessary. 
Every detail in connection with bond selling was reviewed and reviewed again 
with the prospective solicitor. 

The Women's Liberty Loan Committee were likewise carefully schooled in 
the preliminary of this, their first real bond selling campaign, and their work 
achieved handsome results. 

The general plan was as follows: 

1st. To visit every householder and endeavor to secure a bond purchased 
in behalf of every individual in that household. 

2nd. To take time for every visit and omit no one. 

3rd. To show a kindly interest in everyone and refrain from argument. 

4th. To turn in the reports promptly. 

This vigorous campaign closed with the following result: 

Population — 1910 Census 7301 

Quota — Fourth Loan $818,000 

Number of Amount of 

Subscribers Subscriptions 

2819 Item 1. Subscriptions reported by local Banks direct to 

the Federal Reserve Bank $893,400 

Item2. SubscriptionsofAndovercitizensplaced through 
banks in other communities with the request that An- 
dover receive credit. This item also includes subscrip- 
tions of the local Banks (if any) which have been filed by 
162 them through correspondent banks in other cities . . 271,450 



2891 Total $1,164,850 

2891 Total Brought Forward $1,164,850 

Item 3. Deduct subscriptions placed through local 
banks with the request that they be credited to other 

80 committees 1 13,200 

Net 

2901 $1,051,650 



THE LIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGNS 93 

The County Chairman addressed the Executive Committee as follows: 
"I hope you feel as proud of the result in Andover as I do and that you 
also feel a great satisfaction in having your community do its full part in 
what has been the strongest financial test we have yet had to undergo. The 
result >yas magnificent. 

"I want you to know that only your hearty cooperation and untiring 
efforts could have produced these results and that this kind of leadership 
is the thing which will make possible the speedy winning of the war for de- 
mocracy and justice." 

The Executive Committee's report to the workers read in part as follows: 
"Andover feels great satisfaction in having the community do its full 
part in what has been the strongest financial test it has yet had to undergo. 
The result was due primarily to the loyalty, untiring effort, and close co- 
operation of solicitors and people. . . . 

"The gratifying features of the campaign in Andover were: 

1. The almost unanimous desire, upon the part of Andoverians, to have 
all of the amount of their subscriptions, wherever made, credited to the ac- 
count of their home town. The Reserve District desired very careful checking 
of all such subscriptions, and there were but few cases from whom the credit 
did not "come through," due presumably to clerical errors in the making of 
the subscriptions." Resident subscribers in outside banks wer.; themselves 
solicitous to make sure that Andover did finally receive their credit. If any- 
one has been overlooked, he can report to the Chairman, and the necessary 
adjustment and allocation made to Andover's credit even at this date. 

2. One in every three persons in the Town made subscriptions. This 
is a goodly proportion. 

3. The last three days of the campaign brought in many of the larger 
subscriptions. The pledges, however, were made early in the campaign, but 
no public acknowledgment of the credit could be made until the subscription 
had been received in regular form. 

"Approximately ten per cent of the Country's wealth has been used each 
year in the prosecution of the war. The resources for the payment of these 
bills has been derived largely through Bond Issues, War Savings, and Federal 
Tax. The Bond Issues place upon future generations a portion of the burden ; 
the Federal Tax places upon the present generation a corresponding portion. 

"The response to the Fourth Liberty Loan is remarkable, when one con- 
siders the handicap of the prevailing epidemic, and the magnitude of the 
financial operation, but patriotic duty was the inspiration of one and all. 



94 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

"Another Liberty Loan seems certain, for the American people must 
finance a just and conclusive peace. They must be prepared to make its 
success certain and absolute with the same sense of 'patriotic duty that has 
supported the previous great Liberty Loans." 



FIFTH LIBERTY LOAN 

"Liberty Bonds — the means to Victory," "Finish the Job," "Buy early," 
"Wear the Button," "Buy Another": these were the slogans in Andover for 
the Fifth or Victory Loan, the second largest of the five, and Andover carried the 
loan grandly over the top and did her part in spreading the financial load. 

Before the Fifth Loan was announced, the Executive Committee were pub- 
licly encouraging Andover people to cut down their expenditures, to save as much 
as possible and put the money in the banks where it would be on hand when the 
Victory Liberty Bond campaign opened. It was foolish to try exemption from the 
inevitable. The war was over. The job of paying the bills was not over, and the 
Treasury had already sold certificates of indebtedness and "anticipations." The 
Victory Loan campaign was the most difficult to sell of all the five Liberty Loans. 
It was a man's job, and the Andover people applied themselves to it. 

Taxes had increased fearfully, and it was no easy task to find Andover people 
with money to buy. It was not for her, however, to discuss the several evident 
ways in which the loan might be floated; it was for her to sell her apportion- 
ment, and more if possible. 

The Andover teams were explicitly told that patriotism must float the loan; 
that they must not regard the bond from a purely commercial basis, as such a 
loan could not be floated purely for investment purposes. 

Our solicitors were ad vised to direct their influence toward overcoming the feel- 
ing of reaction which seemed to have taken place since the signing of the armi- 
stice, in relation to the financial program of the United States. They were in- 
structed further that the loan was necessary to pay our debts incurred since De- 
cember 15th, to support the army of occupation in Germany, to watch out for 
the sick, to demobilize the troops, to care for the wounded, and to readjust our- 
selves to a condition of peace. So the strong appeal in this loan was to the 
patriotism, the pride, and even the self-interest of Andover people. 

The organization of solicitors met in the Insurance Offices, Friday evening, 
April 18, 1919. The technical side of the loan was thoroughly discussed before 
sixty-two men, who showed the same energetic spirit and eagerness to put 
through this Victorious Fifth. 



THE LIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGNS 95 

Ballardvale was likewise thoroughly organized, under the Chairmanship of 
Mr. William Shaw. 

The final data for Andover's record in the Fifth Loan indicated that the 
town could properly take its place in the list of those cities and towns that "went 
over the top again." The result was due largely to the loyalty and systematic 
manner in which the solicitors carried through their work. The results were as 
follows : 

Item I. Subscriptions reported by the Local Banks direct 

to the Federal Reserve Banks $1,002,000 

Item 2. Subscriptions placed through Banks in other 

communities to Andover's credit $ 79,350 

Total $1,081,350 

Item 3. Deduct subscriptions placed through Andover 
Banks with the request that they be credited to other 
communities $ 126,350 

Net $ 955,000 

Number of subscribers 1095 Quota 613,500 

Andover received prizes for her records in the Third, Fourth, and Fifth 
Loans. Only a few towns of this size showed their patriotism by coming 
through so splendidly. 

The final appearance of the Liberty Loan workers was in the "Welcome 
Home" Parade on Saturday, September 6, 1919, when they marched in a body, 
forming on Elm Street, with head on Summer Street. 

The results for all five campaigns may be summarized as follows: 

No. of Amount 

Allotment Subscribers Raised 

First Liberty Loan of $2,000,000,000 $400,000* 1931 $434,250 

Second Liberty Loan of 3,000,000,000 673,000* 3228 1,249,950 

Third Liberty Loan of 3,000,000,000 434,000t 2192 594,100 

Fourth Liberty Loan of 6,000,000,000 818,000t 2901 1,051,650 

Victory Loan of 4,500,000,000 613,500t 1095 955,000 

*(Including North Andover) 

t(Including Andover) 

For the purpose of making the house to house canvass in the Liberty Loan 
Campaigns, the town was divided into seven districts as follows: 

1. Ballardvale, to and including Wobum Street on to and including Das- 
comb Road on west. 



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2. West Parish, all to and Including Lincoln Street, to Lawrence line on 

North and to George Pillsbury on south. 

3. Abbott Village, Brechin Terrace, Shawsheen Road, Cuba Street to Abbot 

Bridge and up to Railroad on South. 

4. Frye Village, Lincoln Street to North Andover line, up Main Street to 

Stinson Bridge, Old Railroad, and Burnham Road. 

5. Holt District, Salem Street to Main, including all streets leading into it 

and Holt Street to Gardner Avenue. 

6. Scotland District, to and including Hidden Road, Gardner Avenue, 

Stinson, and Holt Streets. 

7. Centre. North to Elm Street, including High ; North Main from Square 

including Harding, Stevens, Pearson and Essex; South of Elm in- 
cluding Summer, Washington Avenue, Avon, Florence, Park and 
Whittier Sts., Chestnut, Bartlett, Punchard, Morton, Upland, Brook, 
Central, School, and Phillips Streets. 

The following men and women acted as captains of the various districts : 



George L. Averill 


Mrs. R. S. Bushnell 


F. G. Cheney 


Mrs. Frank A. Buttrick 


C. H. Forbes 


Miss Alice Coutts 


Frank H. Hardy 


Miss Edith Donald 


Edmund B. Haynes 


Mrs. J.J. Feeney 


Samuel P. Hulme 


Mrs. Burton S. Flagg 


William H. Jaquith 


Mrs. Frank M. Foster 


Harry Sellars 


Mrs. J. H. Kidder 


Mrs. Arthur W. Bassett 


Mrs. John A. Morrill 


with the following corps of lieutenants : 




John C. Angus 


Mrs. Bernard Allen 


R. N. C. Barnes 


Miss Helen W. Battles 


P. J. Barrett 


Miss Alice Bell 


K. R. Batchelder 


Miss Katherine Berry 


Joseph Battles 


Mrs. F. L. Brigham 


Howard W. Bell 


Mrs. Walter Buck 


S. D. Berry 


Mrs. Frank T. Carlton 


H. A. Bodwell 


Miss Mabel Carter 


A. T. Boutwell 


Mrs. George Cheever 


F. S. Boutwell 


Miss Minnie S. Cheever 


Roy H. Bradford 


Mrs. M. W. Colquhoun 



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F. L. Brigham 

F. A. Buttrick 

G. R. Cannon 
Gerard Chapin 
William B. Cheever 
George Christie 

L. A. Dane 
Walter Donald 
J. Dugan 
L. O. Duncklee 
Eldon Fleury 
C. J. Francis 
W. H. Gibson 
C. A. Gilbert 

F. B. Goff 

N. C. Hamblin 
E. E. Hammond 
Laurence Hannon 
W. H. Higgins 
C. A. Hill 

G. M. R. Holmes 
Dr. H. F. Holt 
John V. Holt 
Jonathan E. Holt 
L. H. Homes 

C. R. Hughes 
Frederick R. Hulme 
Louis Huntress 
Ralph O. Ingram 
Gile Johnson 
Walter Lamont 
E. L. L'Archer 
David Lawson 
E. V. Lovely 
A. E. Ludlum 
Timothy Mahoney 
Joseph McCarthy 
Frank McGuire 
M. B. McTernen 
George R. Miller 
W. K. Moorehead 
Charles Morse 



Mrs. Cecilia Derrah 
Mrs. C. T. Dole 
Mrs. P. J. Donovan 
Mrs. Carl Elander 
Mrs. Douglas Fleming 
Mrs. John Flint 
Miss Bessie Goldsmith 
Mrs. Edith Grant 
Miss Adah F. Hall 
Mrs. Arthur W. Hall 
Mrs. N. C. Hamblin 
Mrs. E. E. Hammond 
Mrs. Charles W. Henry 
Mrs. C. W. Holland 
Mrs. Henry Hopper 
Mrs. Lester Newton 
Mrs. Arthur Jackson 
Miss Edith Kendall 
Miss Anna Kuhn 
Mrs. Stanley Lane 
Mrs. A. B. LeBoutillier 
Mrs. David Lindsay 
Miss Genevieve McNally 
Mrs. Frederic G. Moore 
Miss Grace Morse 
Mrs. J. H. Morss 
Mrs. John O'Connell 
Mrs. H. F. Perkins 
Mrs. T. M. Piatt 
Miss Clara Putnam 
Miss Mary E. Richards 
Miss Mary Robinson 
Mrs. C. W. Scott 
Miss Simmons 
Mrs. Fred Smith 
Mrs. H. H. Smith 
Miss Mary L. Smith 
Miss Clara Thompson 
Miss Edith Valpey 
Miss Dora E. Ward 
Mrs. E. M. Weeks 
Mrs. Monte Whitcomb 



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James Morss 
James Mosher 
J. Harry Playdon 
Frank H. Paige 
C. A. Parmelee 
H. F, Perkins 
Everts C. Post 
H. M. Poynter 
John A. Riley 
Joseph B. Scott 
WilHam Orr 



Mrs. P. B. Whittemore 
Irving R. Shaw 
Joseph Stott 
F. A. Swanton 
A. P. Thompson 
W. H. Thompson 
R. A. Watson 
E. M. Weeks 
Horace D. Wood 
W. D. Yates 
George J. York 




John J. Geagan 

Private, 1st Gas Regiment, U. S Army 

Killed in action, November 1, 1918 



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V 

THE THRIFT AND WAR SAVING STAMPS CAMPAIGN 

By Frederic G. Moore 

"Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; 
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year." 

TO bring the World War to a successful issue, it was essential that the 
Treasury should be well supplied with money. In raising the necessary 
amount, the various Liberty and Victory Loan campaigns were, as we 
have seen, of incalculable importance; but the sale of Thrift and War Saving 
Stamps, while necessarily on a smaller scale, was of no less significance, not only 
because of the actual financial help to the government but also because of the 
spirit which it revealed in people who were by no means wealthy. 

The scheme of Thrift and War Saving Stamps was devised with the aim of 
opening the door of opportunity for aiding in winning the war to all people, the 
poor as well as the rich, the children as well as the adults. As a by-product, the 
federal authorities had also other ends in view: the encouragement of thrift among 
all classes of society, and the elimination of that thoughtless expenditure of money 
for non-essentials, a habit deplorable enough in times of peace but inexcusable in 
the stringent years of war. 

The general plan was simple. Thrift stamps could be purchased at the post 
office at twenty-five cents each, and pasted upon a so-called "thrift card". When 
this card had twenty stamps, aggregating five dollars, it could be exchanged for a 
"war saving stamp", which could be held by the owner until maturity, or turned 
into cash at any post-office in a time of emergency. 

Andover, excluding Ballardvale and a portion of West Andover (both of 
which were attached to the Lowell District), consisting of about seven thousand 
inhabitants, was allotted a quota of $140,000. It needs only a glance at these 
figures to see that the task of the Andover committee was likely to be stupendous. 

In January, 1918, Mr. Frederic G. Moore was named as local director of 
War Saving Stamp activities, with the following gentlemen as his executive com- 
mittee: Mr. William B. Cheever, Mr. Frank L. Cole, Mr. Herbert E. Russell, Mr. 
Henry C. Sanborn, and Mr. W. Dudley Yates. As the work developed, sub- 
committees were appointed, with Messrs. Russell and Yates in charge of the mills 
and manufacturing plants, Mr. Sanborn of the public schools, Mr. Cheever of the 
fraternal, social, and mercantile organizations, and Mr. Moore of the churches and 
private schools. 



102 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

These sub-committees began at once an intensive and regular cultivation of 
their respective fields. From the oldest inhabitant to the baby of the family, 
the town was covered by agents in personal solicitation, the endeavor being to 
reach every one. Posters were displayed in public places, and a systematic can- 
vass was instituted. 

Unfortunately for the opening of the campaign, the notion became current 
that the government reHed almost entirely for success in this particular movement 
upon the purchases of the stamps by citizens of small means, and especially by 
school children. When, however, it was appreciated that the large sum of $140,000 
was expected from only seven thousand people, it was obvious that the burden 
was beyond the resources of the small investors. The committee, when con- 
fronted with the situation, at once made an appeal to the financial institutions of 
the town, as well as to a large number of the more well-to-do citizens, to purchase 
issues in the sum of $1000, the maximum amount set by the Treasury Department. 
To this procedure, more than to any thing else, the attainment of the quota may 
be attributed. 

The Andover Post Office, under the exceedingly capable and constant direc- 
tion of Mr. Frank S. McDonald, the Assistant Postmaster, did vahant work. 
The carriers spent many hours overtime, selling stamps, with no thought of offi- 
cial recognition or promotion. Mr. John A. Burtt led the carriers in the 
amount of sales. He was closely followed by carriers Joseph H. Blunt, John 
Lewis, Raymond Mcintosh, James J. Feeney, and Vincent J. Irvine. 

The schools, too, rendered effective cooperation. A regular organization was 
established in the School Department, and weekly sales to the pupils were made by 
those in charge. Many instances of self-denial on the part of girls and boys were 
recounted, and it is undeniably true that in a large number of cases habits of 
thrift and saving were definitely fixed. 

On May 30, 1918, the President of the United States issued a proclamation in 
which he earnestly appealed to all men, women, and children to pledge themselves 
on or before the 28th of June, to save constantly, and to buy as regularly as pos- 
sible securities of the government, but to do this mainly through membership in 
War Saving Societies. 

In accordance with this injunction a drive for pledges was made during the 
week ending June 28, 1918. It was opened with a mammoth rally, held in the 
Town Hall, on Sunday, June 23. The Presiding Officer was Joseph L. Burns, Es- 
quire. Invocation was offered by the Reverend E. Victor Bigelow, Pastor of the 
South Church. The principal speaker of the evening was Arthur Mack, of New 
Bedford, Massachusetts, who, to quote his own words, when he found that our 
country was not going into the war, "declared war himself, enlisted with the 
Canadian forces, and went over on a horse transport". He thrilled the audience 
with stories of his experiences with the Allied Forces overseas, some of his escapes 
from death and serious injury having bordered on the miraculous, — hence the 



THRIFT AND SAVINGS STAMPS 103 

name "Shell Proof Mack", by which he was best known. Intense interest and 
enthusiasm was aroused at the meeting, and the solicitation for pledges commenced 
early the following day. 

This campaign was conducted largely by an organization of women directed 
efficiently by Mrs. Charles S. Buchan, who, although just through with a "drive" 
for the Red Cross, went with renewed vigor at the task in hand. The quota of 
pledges assigned to Andover was 2200 names. At the end of the week the Director 
was proud to be able to wire the Boston headquarters, "Andover has exceeded 
her Quota!" 

The large quota imposed by the government on the Commonwealth of Massa- 
chusetts was never reached. Andover, however, exceeded her allotment by rather 
more than ten per cent. She occupied the seventeenth position among the cities 
and towns of Massachusetts, and actually led Essex County. The County Cup 
was at first awarded erroneously to Swampscott ; but when the corrected records 
were examined and it was found that a mistake had been made, neighbor Swamp- 
scott gracefully yielded in favor of Andover, the legitimate winner. 



VI 



THE WORK OF THE RED CROSS 

"Wherever war, with its red woes, 
Or flood, or fire, or famine goes, 
There, too, go I; 
If earth in any quarter quakes 
Or pestilence its ravage makes. 
Thither I fly. " 

{The Red Cross Spirit Speaks — John Finley) 

THE war work of the Andover Branch of the American Red Cross, if treated 
in the detail which it deserves, would in itself fill a good-sized volume. 
The Red Cross served, in a sense, as a clearing-house for much of the ear- 
nest but frequently rather vague desire to help which was everywhere in evidence. 
Through its ofificers it told people how to put their energies to good purpose ; it 
discovered and spread abroad the real needs of the fighting men; and, managed 
with an efficiency which improved with each new experience, it proved to be 
probably the most effective agent for the expenditure of public contributions. 

The story of the Andover Branch, — like that of innumerable similar groups 
in other towns, — is the account of the growth of a fine and generous impulse. In 
September, 1914, at a meeting of the Benevolent Society of the Academy Church, 
a committee was appointed to consider the establishment of relief work for the suf- 
ferers in stricken countries. At the close of the second preliminary gathering, 
Mrs. Horace H. Tyer was chosen as Chairman, and, on October 12, at her home, a 
program of work was prepared, with several separate committees for buying, cut- 
ting, making, and shipping articles of clothing to Europe. During the winters of 
1915 and 1916 many thousand garments were manufactured by this group of 
ladies and sent to the other side of the Atlantic through the medium of the Red 
Cross. 

In January, 1915, Miss Katharine Loring, of Prides Crossing, gave a talk in 
Davis Hall, Abbot Academy, on the aims of the American Red Cross, at which 
time she urged Andover people to form a branch of the Essex County Chapter. 
For the moment no further steps were taken, the relief projects being already well 
developed and operating satisfactorily. In October, 1916, however, the possibility 
of our entrance into the conflict perceptibly altered the situation. With the con- 
sent of our tOAvnspeople the Essex County Chapter appointed an Andover Red 
Cross committee, consisting of Mrs. Bartlett H. Hayes (Chairman). Miss Eliz- 
abeth M. Smith (Secretary), and Miss Anna W. Kuhn (Treasurer). It was this 



THE WORK OF THE RED CROSS 105 

committee of ladies which formed the nucleus of the Andover Branch of the 
American Red Cross. 

The first annual meeting of the Andover Branch was held on October 16, 1917, 
in the Town Hall, in conjunction with the Special Aid Society for American Pre- 
paredness. The original officers, Mrs. Hayes, Miss Smith, and Miss Kuhn, were re- 
elected. An Advisory Board of men, consisting of Mr. Alfred L. Ripley, Mr. 
Edward V. French, and Dr. William D. Walker, was appointed; and Dr. Claude 
M. Fuess was named as Chairman of a Civilian Relief Committee (later known as 
the Home Service Committee). 

The report of the work accomplished up to this date was indeed striking. For 
many months the Andover Guild had been open every Friday for sewing, this in 
addition to what had been done by various benevolent societies in the town. On 
December 2, 1916, the first case of goods had been sent to Mrs. Marlborough 
Churchill, in Paris, for her relief operations, and, in the aggregate, 4820 separate 
articles had been forwarded to her from Andover. Knitted garments of all kinds 
had been manufactured, including 436 sweaters, 575 mufflers, 317 pairs of socks, 
322 pairs of pajamas, 340 surgical shirts, and many other items of clothing. Since 
June, 1917, moreover, the November Club Building had been occupied every 
Monday by a group of ladies interested in surgical dressings, 7212 of which had 
been prepared and sent away. It is interesting to note also that, during the year, 
nearly $2700 had been received in donations and paid-up subscriptions to the 
Andover Red Cross, of which amount a large part had been expended for yarn and 
other raw materials. 

Meanwhile other humanitarian groups, which had been formed with the 
best of motives and which had done important service, came to realize that their 
aims could be better achieved by their joining with the Red Cross. The Special 
Aid Society for American Preparedness, which, in the early days of the war had 
accomplished much in arousing patriotic sentiment, found it advisable to merge 
with the Red Cross, and, in October, 1917, formally disbanded, turning over its 
funds to the central headquarters in Boston. The Surgical Dressings Committee 
found it easier to finance its enterprises by linking itself to the more powerful 
national organization. This centralization of activities was altogether wise 
and resulted in a marked increase in efficiency. 

In the Red Cross War Fund Campaign of June, 1917, Andover raised far 
more than its quota, chiefly through the generosity of a small number of large 
contributors. On December 18, when the first Membership Drive opened, An- 
dover had only about 250 members of the Red Cross. Under the Reverend 
Frank R. Shipman, however, the Andover Committee perfected an organization 
which accomplished wonders. The town quota was 1840 members; the number 
actually secured was 3150, representing approximately 40% of the total popula- 
tion. During this "drive" headquarters were established in the Postoffice Build- 
ing, on Essex Street, the rooms being donated rent-free by the owners, Dr. Dono- 



106 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

van of Lawrence, and Mr. Bernard McDonald of Andover, and the furnishings 
being contributed by Buchan and Francis. 

In late 1917 the Essex County Chapter of the American Red Cross was en- 
tirely reorganized, and Mr. Alfred L. Ripley was chosen as Chairman of the An- 
dover Branch, with Mrs. James C. Sawyer as Secretary and Miss Anna W. Kuhn 
as Treasurer. The work now became more comprehensive, and therefore more 
costly. Various subordinate committees were meeting regularly: the Work 
Committee (Miss Elizabeth M. Smith, Chairman); the Surgical Dressings Com- 
mittee (Mrs. Markham W. Stackpole, Chairman) ; the Junior Red Cross Commit- 
tee (Mr. Henry C. Sanborn, Chairman); the Membership Committee (Mrs. 
James C. Sawyer, Chairman) ; the Comfort Kit Committee (Mrs. Charles S. Bu- 
chan, Chairman) ; and the Home Service Committee (Dr. Claude M. Fuess, Chair- 
man). The Andover Branch received the net sum of $1228.42 as its proportion of 
the town's contribution to the Red Cross War Fund Campaign, and $1279.90 as its 
share of the First Membership Drive. Besides this, the Chairman, Mr. Ripley, 
had instituted a pledge card system, by which certain citizens agreed to give a 
definite sum each month to the support of the Red Cross. From May, 1917, until 
March, 1918, the expenses of the Andover Branch were nearly $5500. 

This bare and formal statement of what was done gives no adequate idea of 
the patient toil, frequently amounting to drudgery, in which some of the ladies 
especially interested were always willing to engage. Few people heard very much 
of what the Red Cross was doing during these months; no publicity was desired or 
welcomed; and yet regularly these groups would meet at the Guild or the Novem- 
ber Club House, or in the homes of members, and sit for hours at some task in- 
volving the comfort or welfare of the soldiers or war sufferers. Their spirit was an 
inspiring example to the community, and it is safe to say that no appeal was ever 
made to them in vain. They were ready to investigate any case of need or to 
listen to any story of trouble; and they inevitably took the quickest method to 
alleviate it, without red tape or over-much talk. Andover was singularly fortu- 
nate in having in its midst such a band of earnest and gifted men and women to 
transform into deeds the humanitarian feeling of the town. 

During 1918 the functions of the local chapter naturally broadened in scope, 
until it was carrying on various projects of a philanthropic kind, some limited, 
others extensive, but all important in the prosecution of the war. When the Na- 
tional Trench Comforts Committee called for old kid gloves, and bits of worsted, 
tinfoil, and rubber, the boxes for their reception at the November Club were filled 
to overflowing. The local Home Service Committee began, early in January, 1918, 
to meet regularly in the Town House, for the purpose of assisting the families of 
soldiers and sailors with their allotments, allowances, and government insurance. 
When the Commission for Relief in Belgium sent out an appeal, a local Red Cross 
Committee, headed by Miss Esther Smith, who was assisted by Mrs. Percival 




Andover Branch, American Red Cross, Parading on Main Street 




Andover's Army Nurses 



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THE WORK OF THE RED CROSS 109 

Dove, Mrs. Katharine M. Pinckney, Miss Eleanor Bartlett, and Miss Phyllis 
Brooks, received and packed over 900 articles, including coats, skirts, shoes, and 
underclothing, the whole weighing more than 1100 pounds. 

In May, 1918, came the second Red Cross Campaign for $100,000,000, An- 
dover's share being set at $8,500. Once again the Reverend Frank R. Shipman 
took charge of the organization, and secured a loyal group of workers. The 
"drive" opened with a huge parade, on Monday, May 20, more than tliree thou- 
sand persons being in the line. The divisions, after finishing the regular line of 
march, proceeded to Brothers' Field, where an address was given by Lieutenant- 
Colonel Cecil Williams, of the British Army. The campaign closed with a mass 
meeting in the Town Hall, on Sunday evening. May 26, at which the speakers were 
Chairman Alfred L. Ripley and Sergeant Edward B. Creed, of the 101st Infantry. 
As a consequence of these efforts, Andover raised $21,100 (this being 247% of the 
assigned quota) and enrolled 4300 members. 

In September the local branch managed successfully a second campaign for 
old clothes to be sent to the Commission for Relief in Belgium. Mrs. F. L. Pur- 
don, assisted by Mrs. Bartlett H. Hayes and Mrs. Charles D. Thompson, col- 
lected hundreds of garments, which were packed and sent off to the distributing 
points. The response of Andover citizens to the solicitations of the committee 
was little short of remarkable. 

The breaking out of the influenza epidemic in September, 1918, was destined 
to test to the utmost the spirit and the resources of the Red Cross. There was, of 
course, an immediate shortage of nurses in the community ; and the Red Cross, co- 
operating with the local doctors and with the Board of Health, made arrangements 
for two Red Cross nurses to give instruction in the care of patients. Dr. Abbott 
and his associates on the Health Committee worked tirelessly in combating the 
disease. A volunteer committee, made up of Miss Kuhn, Mrs. Hayes, Mrs. 
Stackpole, and Miss Elizabeth Smith, spent practically all their waking hours 
for many days in distributing broth to the sick, and in seeing that urgent 
cases were attended to. In this emergency women showed themselves capable 
of enduring the most trying hardships. It was largely as a result of their 
work that Andover escaped the calamities which afflicted other towns in the 
Commonwealth. 

The terrible scourge had hardly passed before the World War ended. But 
the work of the Red Cross could not cease. A Red Cross Committee, with Pro- 
fessor Charles H. Forbes as Chairman, took charge of the sending of Christmas 
parcels to the boys overseas. In November the activities of the local branch were, 
because of the stringent coal situation, concentrated in the Andover Guild, where 
the workers gathered on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons. The National War 
Council of the Red Cross issued an appeal to the country not to relax in its support 
of that organization. When the Christmas Membership Drive was announced, 
Mr. Shipman was once more asked to serve as Chairman in Andover; and, after a 



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week's campaign, the town reported 3900 members. Here again, Mr. Shipman's 
executive ability and the faithful cooperation of his sub-committees made failure 
impossible. 

Of the service performed by the Red Cross in the trying days since the armi- 
stice there is no space here to speak. It has continued to minister to the public 
welfare and to provide assistance in times of special emergency. But its glory will 
always be that it proved itself capable, in a period of war, of enormous expansion 
with no loss in efficiency; that it won and held the confidence of the people, and 
thus commanded their support; and that it never failed, even in critical moments, 
to make idealism of practical value. The story of the Red Cross in Andover, and 
in countless similar communities, is one of which every member may be proud. 



ANDOVER BRANCH ESSEX COUNTY CHAPTER AMERICAN RED CROSS 

Mr. Alfred L. Ripley (Chairman) 
Mrs. James C. Sawyer (Secretary) 
Miss Anna W. Kuhn (Treasurer) 



Mrs. Henry A. Bodwell 
Mrs. Fred G. Cheney 
Mrs. Frank L. Cole 
Mrs. Charles E. Davies 
Mrs. James J. Feeney 
Mrs. Milo H. Gould 
Mrs. Frank H. Hardy 
Mrs. William Odlin 
Mrs. J. H. Playdon 



Work Committee 
Miss Elizabeth M. Smith (Chairman) 



Miss Esther Smith (packing) 



Mrs. David Shaw 
Mrs. Frank F. Valentine 
Miss Eleanor Bartlett 
Miss Phyllis Brooks 
Miss Ella Cheever 
Miss Mary Eraser 
Miss Margaret Keane 
Miss Emily Sprague 
Mrs. Eben Baldwin (yarn) 



Surgical Dressings Committee 

Mrs. Markham W. Stackpole (Chairman) 

Mrs. George F. Cheever Mrs. Courtney Pinckney 

Mrs. George F. French Mrs. Horace M. Poynter 

Mrs. Frank B, Grout Mrs. John L. Phillips 

Mrs. Bartlett H. Hayes Mrs. George L. Selden 

Miss Katherine Hurley Mrs. A. P. Thompson 

Mrs. Arthur W. Leonard Miss Elizabeth M. Smith 
Mrs. W. Dacre Walker 



Junior Red Cross Committee 

Mr. Henry C. Sanborn (Chairman) 
Mrs. Edward V. French Miss Elizabeth M. Loftus 

Mr. Nathan C. Hamblin Miss Clara Putnam 

Mr. William D. Hazeltine Miss Mary L. Smith 



THE WORK OF THE RED CROSS 



HI 



Mrs. Charles S. Buchan 
Mrs. Fred G. Cheney 
Mrs. Charles J. Francis 
Mrs. James J. Feeney 
Miss Mary C. Geagan 



Membership Committee 

Mrs. James C. Sawyer (Chairman) 

Miss E. Louise Hardy 
Mrs. Frank H. Hardy 
Mrs. John McGrath 
Miss Charlotte M. Hill 
Rev. Frank R. Shipman 



Home Service Committee 



Mrs. Charles S. Buchan 
Mrs. George F. French 
Mrs. Alfred H. Quimby 
Mrs. Philip F. Ripley 



Dr. Claude M. Fuess, 
Mr. John C. Angus, 
Mr. George Dick, 



Chairmen 



Mr. J. Duke Smith 



Miss Emily A. Sprague 
Mrs. Markham W. Stackpole 
Mr. Burton S. Flagg 
Mr. Frederick H. Jones 



Mrs. William Frye 



Comfort Kit Committee 
Mrs. Charles S. Buchan (Chairman) 



Mr. George Dick 



VII 
THE LEGAL ADVISORY BOARD 

By J. Duke Smith 

When the war is looked at from the perspective of history, there are few de- 
partments of the government, which will, in the writer's opinion, compare in 
efficiency with the conduct of the office of the Provost Marshal General. Consider- 
ing the question of a draft, from the standpoint of early 1914, or of any subsequent 
period before the United States entered the war, to think that this country could 
by a draft call to the colors nearly 3,000,000 men, without riots or undue disturb- 
ance, and with a smoothness almost uncanny, would hardly have been conceivable. 
And yet that is exactly what happened, and the work of legal advisory boards and 
their assistants efficiently kept running one of the cogs in one of the machines, 
which made that result possible. It was the fairness of the Selective Service 
Regulations, and the patience and square dealing of local boards and legal ad- 
visers that appealed to the registrants, both native and foreign born, and made 
"the most drastic legislation of the last half century," efficient and successful. 
Before the war ended 24,234,021 men were enrolled and became subject to the 
Selective Service Law. 

In order that the 3,646 local boards might properly classify the registrants, 
the President, in his foreword to the Selective Service Regulations, issued a call 
to the members of the legal profession to offer their services. The plan was to 
have as large a number of lawyers as possible, who, with assistance from other 
public spirited citizens, could be assigned to the undertaking. For each local 
board there was constituted a legal advisory board, consisting of three lawyers, 
whose duties were to see that there should always be a competent force of lawyers 
or laymen available to registrants at any time during which the local or district 
boards were open for business. It was the duty of legal advisory boards to mobi- 
lize assistant advisers, both lawyers and laymen, for their districts. The Gover- 
nors of the States were asked to divide the States into districts, and to constitute 
a legal advisory board for each district, and to nominate the members thereof, for 
appointment by the President. In order that the lawyers might be mobilized with 
all possible speed, the Provost Marshal General called in the American Bar Asso- 
ciation, and suggested for each State the assignment of the Vice-President and the 
State member of the General Council of that Association, the President of the 
State Bar Association, and the Attorney General of the State as a committee to 



THE LEGAL ADVISORY BOARD 113 

assist the Governor in the organization of legal advisory boards. Within a week 
these boards were substantially all organized and ready for their work, which 
was to begin the latter part of December, 1917. The members of legal advisory 
boards numbered 10,915, and associate members 108,367. It was about this time 
that the famous questionnaire came out, and it is still a question with lawyers and 
laymen alike whether the questionnaire or the income tax blank is the more for- 
midable document. Great publicity was given to the existence of legal advisory 
boards and their purposes, registrants being informed that they could obtain free 
professional advice as to their rights under the Selective Service Law and free as- 
sistance in filling out their questionnaires. Although the duties of legal advisers 
lasted for the duration of the war, the intensive periods of activity were in the 
latter part of December, 1917 and in January, 1918, again in May, 1918, when the 
local boards were busy in reclassifying, due to the lack of registrants in Class 1, 
and again in September, 1918, when the new registration took place of men 
from 18 to 45. Legal advisers were also called upon for advice with regard to the 
War Risk Insurance act and the Soldiers and Sailors Civil Rights act. 

Locally, the legal advisory board of Division 21 covered Andover, North 
Andover, Rowley, Ipswich, Topsfield, Georgetown, Groveland, Middleton and 
Boxford — Arthur H. Wellman, of Topsfield, was Chairman of the board, and 
his associates were Lewis K. Morse, of Boxford, and J. Duke Smith, of Andover. 
The following men served at one time or another as legal advisers in Andover; 
Frank L. Brigham, Joseph L. Burns, E. Barton Chapin, George A. Christie, Bur- 
ton S. Flagg, Eldon E. Fleury, Charles H. Forbes, Dr. Claude M. Fuess, James C. 
Graham, Arthur W. Hall, Everett C. Hilton, Lewis H. Homer, Samuel P. Hulme, 
Judge J. J. Mahoney, Charles N. Marland, Frederic G. Moore, Charles Alfred 
Morse, William Odlin, Charles A. Parmelee, Horace Martin Poynter, John S. 
Robertson, Herbert E. Russell, Joseph Bradlee Scott, J. Duke Smith, Franklin H. 
Stacey, and Judge Colver J. Stone. 

The legal advisers usually met for business in the Committee Room at the 
Town Hall, principally in the evening, and there, to the best of their ability, helped 
the registrants in their answers to the somewhat compHcated questions in the 
questionnaires. Uncle Sam evidently has never been a farmer, or he would have 
asked more intelligible questions of those engaged in that pursuit. Another matter 
that gave trouble both to legal advisers and to registrants was the question of de- 
pendency. The question reads "State both (a) the approximate total and (b) 
the average monthly amount of your support of your wife and children, during 
the last 12 months". This question was a puzzle to both registrants and legal 
advisers, on account of the various elements that enter into support, that is, 
cash, clothing, rent, etc. Sometimes the answer was guessed at roughly, and some- 
times worked out by higher mathematics and reams of paper. Many amusing 
things took place during the examination of registrants. One registrant, after 
stating that he was married in May, 1916, stated in his next answer that he had 



114 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

one child, born in July, 1916. Upon being asked by the legal adviser if that was 
right, the registrant replied " It isn't right, but it's true". A registrant, who had 
only recently moved to Andover, in chatting with one of the advisers, stated that 
he had always lived in the West, and had never seen the ocean until a short time 
ago. On being asked from what part of the West he had come, he replied " North 
Adams," 

Questions continually arose for interpretation, and instructions kept coming 
by wire from Washington to the Attorney General, who in turn passed them over 
to local boards and to a Central Legal Advisory Committee, formed in Boston. 
This committee sent out its rulings and instructions to legal advisers in the form 
of Bulletins. Local boards also recommended to advisers the importance of 
having some of the questions in the questionnaire answered very fully, particularly 
questions as to dependency, citizenship, industry, and agriculture. To be up to 
date, legal advisers had to be pretty well primed with information. Hard common- 
sense, in guiding a registrant through his ordeal, was after all the best equipment 
for the adviser, and, where it was used, substantial justice was worked out, and 
the problem of the local board in classifying much simplified. On the whole con- 
sidering the inevitable difficulties in card-cataloguing the manhood of the nation, 
and the speed with which the work had to be accomplished, it is almost a miracle 
that it could have been done as quickly and efficiently as it was. 




Andover Boys in Battery F, 102nd Field Artillery, 26th Division 




Battery F Falling into line at Camp Devens before a Divisional Review 



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VIII 
THE LOWELL-ANDOVER BATTERY 

By Markham W. Stackpole 

During the spring and eariy summer of 1917, a new Narional Guard regiment 
of light artillery was formed by Lt. Colonel Thorndike D. Howe of Lawrence. Two 
existing batteries from Worcester and Lawrence, formerly units of the 1st Massa- 
chusetts F. A., were transferred to the new organization. Andover was repre- 
sented in Battery C of Lawrence by Capt. Roy A. Daniels, Lt. William B. Hig- 
gins, Corp. James Dick, and Privates James Dugan and Thomas Davies. Paul 
Cheney enlisted in the Headquarters Company, recruited partly in Lawrence. 
New batteries were organized in Haverhill, New Bedford, Worcester, and Lowell. 
The following thirty-two young men of Andover enlisted in Battery F of Lowell : 
— George A. Abbott, John H. Baker, James H. Buss, Charles W. Bowman, 
Arthur W. Cole, George M. Collins, J. Everett Collins, John K. Converse, Joseph 
J. Daley, Edward S. Dodge, Charles De Fazio, Ralph De Fazio, Clarence B. 
Eastwood, John M. Erving, David S. Gordon, Walter S. Grout, Cornelius J. 
Hart, Warren E. Hart, James H. Hilton, Eldred W. Larkin, Harold E. Larkin, 
Edward R. Lawson, Carl N. Lindsay, Alfred H. McKee, Byron S. Morrill, George 
C. Napier, Frank L. Nicoll, Ralph H. Partridge, George H. Saunders, Charles E. 
Shattuck, George F. Symonds, and Guy E. Webster. Two others. Kirk Temple 
and Walter S. Lawson, enlisted but were honorably discharged. (Walter Lawson 
later served in the Navy.)Andover was thus represented in this new regiment by a 
remarkably fine group of men. All but one of them served in France. Their in- 
dividual records will be found elsewhere in this volume.* The first Captain of 
Battery F was Sumner H. Needham, and one of the First Lieutenants was Win- 
fred C. MacBrayne. They were both of Lowell. 

After a series of preliminary battery drills at the respective armories during 
May, June, and July, the regiment entered active service on July 25th, and by 
August 1st all the units were in camp at Boxford together with the 1st Massa- 
chusetts F. A. On August 5th the regiment was mustered into the Federal army 
to become the 102nd F. A., a unit of the 51st F. A. Brigade of the 26th (or "Yan- 
kee") Division. The Brigade and the Division were thus numbered by the War 
Department as the first among the organizations of their kind formed from Na- 
tional Guard troops. Maj.-Gen. Clarence R. Edwards was placed in com- 

* A history entitled, "Our Miracle Battery," has been published by Private George Mozley 
of Lowell. The present writer has derived various details from that narrative. 



118 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

mand of the Division with headquarters in Boston, Col. Morris E. Locke of 
the regular army was assigned to the comrnand of the regiment with temporary- 
charge of the Brigade, and Lt. Colonel Thorndike D. Howe continued during the 
Boxford encampment in active authority as regimental commander. Rev. Mark- 
ham W. Stackpole, of Phillips Academy, Andover, was Chaplain. A third regi- 
ment was brought together at Boxford made up of other New England artillery 
units, thus completing a brigade of some five thousand men. It soon became evi- 
dent that the average vigor, intelligence, and character of the men of this brigade, 
as well as of the entire division, were notably high. Later events further demon- 
strated this. For eight weeks the men were trained largely in camp discipline and 
foot-drill, while much attention was given to physical condition. There were 
opportunities also for athletic sports and entertainments. Visitors came in great 
numbers. The Andover boys were able to get home now and then, and one day, 
accompanied by the regimental band, they came back in a body to be guests 
at the Play stead and the Engine House. 

Before the middle of September the sister regiment, the 101st F. A., had left for 
"an unknown destination." 1st Lt. Frank L. Smith and Herbert F. Cheever 
were in this regiment. On September 21st at 2 o'clock the bugle sounded, and 
like a whirlwind the big brown tents came down in the eight battery streets 
of the 102nd. That night the whole regiment was moving by train toward New 
York, with all car curtains drawn. This "secret" troop movement, however, 
attracted crowds of cheering friends to local stations. Sunday evening, the 23rd, 
the steamship "Finland" with the 102nd F. A. on board and in company with two 
other transports, left lower New York harbor convoyed by a cruiser and de- 
stroyers. Thirty-eight Andover men had the honor of being in this early shipload 
of American troops bound for France. Various infantrymen had already sailed 
or were in accompanying transports. Crowded quarters, inadequate ration ar- 
rangements, and the submarine peril, however, marred the pleasure of the ocean 
voyage. Daily practice calls to the life-boats were the rule, each man wearing a 
tight life-preserver that was Uke two pillows upon the chest and shoulders. But, 
thanks to the vigilance and skill of the chief naval officer. Commander Graham, 
the crossing was made without misfortune, and on October 7th the fifteen hun- 
dred officers and men were landed at St. Nazaire on the west coast of France. 

Ten days in a Debarkation Camp near that city introduced the boys to 
French rain and mud, to the mysteries of the French language and coinage, and to 
the doubtful comforts of those long wooden sheds with cheese-cloth windows and 
dirt floors known as "Adrian" barracks. Another strange journey soon followed. 
It consisted of some eight hours of railway travel in French "side-door Pullmans," 
small freight cars marked for forty men or eight horses. Even benches were 
rare in those "carriages." 

The real training of the regiment took place during the next three and a half 
months at Camp Coetquidan on a plateau in the heart of Brittany, with extensive 




Thomas Edward Carter 
2nd Lieutenant, Infantry, U. S. Army 
Killed in action, November 4, 1918 



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THE LOWELL-ANDOVER BATTERY 121 

reservations of open country and abandoned villages for fire-practice. The guns 
were in readiness, the famous French 75 's, and instruction began at once in observ- 
ing, signalling, and firing by day and night. The men learned quickly. Soon the 
horses arrived in great number and variety. Part of the men found plenty of diffi- 
cult work in learning to ride and drive, and in the training and care of the animals. 
But the strenuous life at Coetquidan was varied at times by soccer games, by trips 
to Guer or Rennes, by the occasional arrival of letters and papers, by the Thanks- 
giving feast and entertainment, and by the Christmas boxes from home. Though 
equipped with cots, the quarters were cold and damp, the temporary canteen of 
the Y.M.C. A. was inadequate, and, for most of the time, no entertainment center 
was available. Of course there was some sickness, and a quarantine against men- 
ingitis was in effect through the Christmas season and after ; but the boys of Bat- 
tery F played the game cheerfully and made the most of their good fellowship. 

At length the welcome day for leaving Coetquidan and cold, dull Brittany ar- 
rived and each battery undertook the new task of getting guns, caissons, wagons, 
supplies, horses, and themselves upon a train of fifty little French box-cars and 
flat-cars. "Where do we go from here?" was the question of the moment, and 
only a few knew. Great was the excitement of the boys, therefore, when the 
crawling trains moved around to the north of Paris and came to a stop nearSoissons, 
only a few miles from the Chemins des Dames front. Six weeks of combat training 
followed in association with French troops. Code telephoning, real observing 
and signalling, real firing, and real danger now became incidents of the day's 
work or the night's work. Vigilant precautions were necessary. Gas masks 
were carried, and at the positions "tin hats" were worn. The headquarters 
of Battery F were established in barracks near the ruined village of Crecy- 
au-Mont while the guns were taken forward intoa roadside position near the famous 
fortified hill-town of Coucy-le-Ch^teau. The guns were under camouflage net- 
ing, and the gunners lived in adjoining planked dugouts. Night by night a small 
wagon train was driven from echelon to position along exposed roads, carrying 
supplies, the mail, and dispatches. The sound of German airplanes bound for 
Paris became familiar. Once four bombs were dropped in a line very close to the 
barracks of the battery. After a time the gun position was moved nearer to the 
others, and the drivers found quarters in a large quarry cave at Leury. It was in 
these first weeks at the front that the corresponding infantry regiments in the 
trenches ahead learned to appreciate the support of their artillery a mile or two in 
the rear. 

The Division was relieved just before the German drive toward Soissons, which 
began the 21st of March, 1918. A train trip of twentyhours brought the regiment 
to the vicinity of Bar-sur-Aube,andaweekof road -marching followed. Each night 
the batteries were billeted in villages, the men often sleeping in barns or sheds. 
A period of rest and field maneuvers was now expected, but another surprise came 
in an order to move on over the road to the sector north of Toul. In spite of the 



122 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

poor condition of the horses, and the loss of a number of them through disease or 
exhaustion, the road march was accomphshed, and by the close of another week the 
regiment had relieved the 6th F. A. of the 1st Division and were in positions to the 
southeast of Mont Sec and in range from that menacing hill. Battery F 
had two positions with two guns at each, one being near the famous "Dead 
Man's Curve." The horse Hnes with those of the other units of the regiment 
were at the village of Sanzey, five miles to the rear. In this sector the whole 
26th Division was operating as a tactical unit in a French corps. Colonel Locke 
was in command of the regiment, and Major Herbert (of Worcester) was in 
charge of the 2nd BattaHon which included Battery F. Captain Needham 
had been detailed as an instructor, and for the next three months Lieutenant 
Andrew W.Thompson (of Worcester) and Captain Wayland M. Minot (of Boston) 
were successively in charge of the battery. In the Seicheprey affair the battery 
fired for ten hours, each gun shooting 950 rounds of shells. American gunners be- 
came noted for quick firing. One of our Andover boys, Charles Bowman, was 
wounded in May and sent to the hospital. But during these three months in the 
Boucq-La Reine sector there were weeks of comparative quiet. Meanwhile the 
men at the echelon had been busy bringing up ammunition at night in columns of 
caissons, and caring for the horses and equipment, with such recreation and com- 
forts as were afforded at the Salvation Army Hut, the "Y" tent, and a small 
athletic field with boxing stand. At this period under fairly settled conditions the 
mail came regularly, bringing welcome letters and papers from the ever-thoughtful 
friends at home. 

Yet these three months had been among the darkest of the war. The wide- 
spread rumor of going home to Devens was in striking contrast with the actual 
needs of the situation. At the end of June, therefore, the sixty troop trains of the 
26th Division were moving not to the coast but to the river Marne, east of Paris, 
and shortly after the 4th of July, following a few days of comparative rest in 
pleasant villages, the batteries took defensive positions near La Fert6-sous- 
Jouarre, north of the Marne. A new commander had now taken over the bat- 
tery, Lee H. Cover of Colorado, who had been trained at Saumur. Greatly 
respected and beloved by the men, he remained their leader till the day of dis- 
charge. For the next month there was to be open warfare, with unprotected 
advanced positions and pup-tents or "rabbit-holes" for shelter, while the horse 
lines were at nearby farms or in the woods. The first move took the regiment to 
the vicinity of Villiers-sur-Marne, where the famous chateau, "My Home on the 
Field of Honor," was located. Another ten days and the great advance known as 
"The Chateau Thierry Offensive " had begun. This meant a continuous strain by 
night and day of marching and firing for two weeks. The infantry was relieved on 
July 25th, but the artillery kept on till the river Vesle was reached on August 4th. 
Colonel Locke was still in command. Battery F had now lost two especially 
efficient men, Gerald Silk of Tewksbury, an expert electrician, and Mahlon Den- 



THE LOWELL-ANDOVER BATTERY 123 

nett of Winchester, who had served as Gas Corporal. Corporal Silk was killed 
July 18th and was buried in an American plot at Bezu-le-Guery, while Corporal 
Dennett was wounded on July 24th and died in a hospital August 10th. Dennett 
had been a student at the Lowell Textile School. Among those who had suffered 
from gas were Arthur Cole, Joseph Daley, Eldred Larkin, Edward Lawson, and 
George Symonds. 

A good rest was now hoped for. The tide of war had turned and all were in 
high spirits. After a short stay south of the Marne, the regiment entrained at 
Chateau Thierry and went to villages near Chitillon-sur-Seine. Bright days were 
enjoyed there, far from the noise and stress of the front. But this period, too, was 
suddenly cut short just as both officers and men were making plans to take their 
first leaves. At the end of August a train and road movement brought the or- 
ganization into the line again between St. Mihiel and Verdun. In the early morn- 
ing of September 12th the guns, stationed on hills near the village of Mouilly, took 
part in the terrific barrage that ushered in the St. Mihiel drive, an operation that 
was completed within two days and elinunated the salient in the German line that 
reached out to St. Mihiel. The guns then went forward into positions command- 
ing part of the great Woevre plan. Battery F men had the protection of good 
dugouts in these positions. In this region the regiment remained nearly a month, 
subject only to occasional harassing shell and gas fire. Offensive action was now 
and then called for in support of infantry raids, but no death casualties occurred 
in the battery during these actions. Joseph Daley of Andover had become First 
Sergeant. Lt. Colonel Herbert commanded the regiment during this period in the 
Rupt-Troyon sector. 

The St. Mihiel drive had greatly increased the confidence in ultimate suc- 
cess which the Chateau Thierry Offensive had inspired, and now came the news of 
the collapse of Austria and Bulgaria, and Germany's first move for an armistice. 
Every scrap of news was eagerly discussed by the men. For one week the entire 
regiment was brought together at a camp in the woods a few miles west of Verdun. 
There was a desperate lack of horses in all the batteries. But after the middle 
of October the gun crews moved into very difficult and dangerous positions 
near Samogneux, eight miles north of Verdun, and east of the Meuse, to take 
their part in the last phase of the great Meuse-Argonne Offensive. The dugouts 
opened toward the enemy, the country was hilly and open, and the guns were un- 
protected. At this critical corner of the line the enemy showed great tenacity and 
the advance was slight. There was much firing by our artillery in connection with 
the operations of the infantry, and at times the regimental positions were sub- 
jected to severe shelling. There were a number of death casualties in nearby 
batteries and Battery F lost Corporal George R.Quessy of Lowell. The horse lines 
were near a pond by the river at Thierville not far from Verdun, the men having 
pitched their shelter tents in a damp field. Late one afternoon as the men were 
lined up for mess, a big shell was suddenly heard. It landed very near them at the 



124 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

edge of the pond and sent a column of water into the air. "There goes Battery 
F," thought one who was watching from the other side of the river. But the 
lucky boys had escaped again for, while one horse was killed and another wounded, 
a slight scratch upon one man was the only injury inflicted. Still another miracle 
was the safe return of a detail which went outwithone "sniping" gun in charge of 
Lt. Wilbur Berry two days before the armistice. Two Andover boys were in this 
crew, George Collins being its chief. They were approached by enemy patrols 
and got back with difficulty just in time to join in the final shots from another 
battery position on the Armistice morning. 

The Armistice celebration, on Nov. 11th, was followed by withdrawal toward 
Bar-le-Duc and a month in billets at Salmagne. Still another month was spent at 
Saulxures near Chaumont in eastern France. This period was darkened by much 
sickness and by the death from pneumonia of Winthrop Wright of Billerica and 
of the well-beloved John Baker of Andover. "Johnnie" Baker was the only An- 
dover boy in this regiment to give his life in the service. Indeed it was a remark- 
able fact that in the Battery as a whole there had been only five losses by death 
among the two hundred original members. 

Toward the end of January the regiment was moved again, this time to the Le 
Mans embarkation area north of Tours. Colonel Herbert was again in command. 
Two months were spent in barn billets at farms near the village of Mayet. During 
the tedious four and a half months after the armistice the foremost question in 
every mind was "When do we go home?" There were routine duties, drilling, and 
an occasional review, including an official visit by General Pershing to the Divi- 
sion m February. In March came the final "battle with the cooties." But es- 
pecial attention was given to athletic sports during these months. Individuals 
and teams from Battery F acquitted themselves well in field and track contests, 
in soccer and Rugby football, and in boxing bouts. Back in the summer the bat- 
tery had figured in baseball. Andover boys, among them the Collins brothers, the 
Larkin brothers, Carl Lindsay, Edward Lawson and Warren Hart were prominent 
as battery athletes. Several members having musical or dramatic ability had 
from time to time entertained their comrades throughout the year and a half in 
France. Singing like that of Everett Collins, heard in the open air and sometimes 
in desolate places, did much to soothe or cheer the spirits of the boys. 

At the beginning of this account, reference was made to the high personal 
quality of the Andover members of this battery. Their conduct in France both as 
men and as soldiers gave further proof of this. In point of efficiency and morale, 
both the battery and the regiment as a whole made a fine record ; and not least 
important and commendable was the hearty spirit of comradeship that prevailed 
in the organization representing Lowell and Andover. 

It was a happy and healthy regiment that marched briskly to the Mayet 
railway station with fluttering red guidons on March 28, 1919; and the boys were 
amazed to find themselves on the "Mongolia," homeward bound from Brest 




. ^atf^*-"*^ 



John Howard Baker 

Piivate, 102nd Field Artillery, U. S. Army 

Died, January 3, 1919 



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THE LOWELL-ANDOVER BATTERY 127 

three days later. The voyage was a pleasant one. In ten days the ship dropped 
anchor in Boston Harbor. The personal greetings, the public welcome, the visits 
home from Camp Devens, and finally the parade in Boston — all these made memo- 
rable those last three weeks in the army. Who will forget the comparative luxuries 
of Camp Devens — heated and lighted barracks with cot-beds and mattresses, 
mess halls with actual tables, and best of all hot-water baths ! Yet April 29th came 
none too soon, for on that day the formalities of discharge were completed. Most 
of the Andover boys were still with the regiment, and many of them came home 
from Ayer together in the trucks sent over by the considerate people of the old 
home town. It is fitting, therefore, to close this story of the fighting unit in which 
Andover was most largely represented with words of gratitude to the friends and 
organizations both in Lowell and Andover for all the generous things they had 
done for these boys during twenty-one months of active service in the American 
army. 



ANDOVER INFANTRYMEN 

The town was well represented also in the infantry regiments of the famous 
26th Division, especially in Co. F of the 101st, and in Co. L, of the 103rd. 
Most of these men had enlisted in Lawrence companies. There were at 
least twenty-one Andover infantrymen in the Division as follows: John 
Campbell, Elmer E. Davis, Edward T. Eldred, Ernest Green, Amos Frotten, Wil- 
liam Holden, Francis C. Hughes, Joseph Levi, William Lowe, James Moore, John 
J. Murphy (killed in action near Verdun), John O'Neil, James J. Petty, John W. 
Ramsden, William P. Renny (wounded), John C. Ross (cited), John Shevlin 
(wounded), Courtney A. Smith, Walter E. Strout, James B. Valentine (wounded), 
and Charles A. Young (died of wounds). 

After several weeks of training in the camps at Framingham and Westfield 
these regiments were transported to France during September, 1917. For a period 
of three months they were billeted in the region of Neufchateau in eastern France 
for intensive training. Early in February, 1918, the whole Division was brought 
together at the Chemin des Dames sector near Soissons. From that time on, the 
infantry and artillery units operated together. It is not possible here to record 
in detail the severe fighting in which Andover infantrymen took part in the Toul 
sector, the Chateau Thierry Offensive, the St. Mihiel drive, and the attacks north 
of Verdun. After the Armistice, the Infantry regiments were stationed in the 
Chaumont region and later in the Le Mans area. They all returned in the early 
sprmg of 1919, and following a divisional review at Camp Devens and a parade 
in Boston, they were disbanded April 29th. At least sixty-one Andover men had 
served in the 26th Division. 



IX 
THE BRITISH AND CANADIANS IN THE WORLD WAR 

By George A. Christie 

"They were summoned from the Hillside, 
They were called in from the Glen." 

FAR from the hillsides and the glens of their native land, the sons of the 
Empire, gone forth to other lands to try their fortunes, heard the call and 
responded nobly. Here in America, thousands of men of British birth 
heard the call and answered. 

Andover, — "everywhere and always first, " — waited not long. In her midst 
were soldiers of the King, men who had served with honor and earned their re- 
lease from military duties. But they were still obligated to answer the call in the 
hour of danger to the Mother Country, and on August 2, 1914, the hour — "Der 
Tag " — came. Less than two weeks after the War Lord of the Huns had launched 
his legions and loosed his thunderbolts of death across the fertile plains and val- 
leys of fair Belgium, with "the White Chalk Cliffs of Dover" as his final goal, the 
sons of the Empire here in old Andover were on their way to assist their comrades 
to repel the onrush of the war-crazed Hun. 

America had not yet entered the war. Washington awaited with patience the 
last word in the campaign of frightfulness on the high seas that would finally make 
it impossible to continue friendly relations with the Kaiser and his hordes. 

The sons of the Empire, the sons of the Mother Land, rallied to the flag. 
These men bore the brunt of the fighting for more than two years before the boys 
of the Stars and Stripes received their first baptism of fire. They fought in 
Flanders and Northern France. They were the first to face the terrible gas 
attacks, which caught them unprepared, and they fell like grass before the reaper. 
Andover's men were there. They were at Ypres and Loos and the Somme. They 
were poorly equipped both as to guns and ammunition. One of Andover's men 
who was at Ypres, and who fought on a dozen battle fronts during his more than 
four years with the British, told of how at Ypres in the early stages of the war 
they saved the shells until the end of the week for a grand blow-out. They fired 
just enough during the week to let the Hun know that Tommy was still there. It 
was this spirit that enabled the British to hang on to Ypres all through the war, 
although at a terrible cost. 



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129 



There was no obligation on the part of these men to leave their homes here 
and cross the seas. They remembered, however, that they were Britons still, and 
that their country called, and that was enough for them. The first to go' was 
James Cavan. He had served with the colors before coming to America. He re- 
joined his old regiment and answered the last call on "Flanders Fields, where 
poppies grow. " Other men of British birth crossed the seas and enlisted to serve 
the King and Country. There were two who served through the war, David 
Waldie, a battle-scarred veteran of another war, and Norman K. MacLeish, a 
mere boy, who joined the famous Cameronians. William Rae and David Croall 
went back to the land of glens and hillsides and enlisted with the Black Watch, 
the most noted of all the Highland regiments. They were in the thick of the fight 
when the attack of the Hun was the fiercest and died a soldier's death. 

Through the days of 1917, when America with feverish haste was training her 
young men for the final assault against the enemy, the British were hanging on 
with dogged determination. The Channel was the Kaiser's hope; his hope was 
never fulfilled. It meant more men to hold the Germans back, and Andover men 
again responded. Canada made the appeal, and, wearing the Maple Leaf of the 
Dommion, neariy half a hundred young men of Andover heeded the appeal. The 
pipes of the Black Watch and the recruiting officer of the MacLean Kilties got 
results, and they crossed the border with many a sturdy son of the Empire. The 
MacLean Kilties were recruited wholly in America, and Andover did her part. 

The men who went with the Canadians knew theirs would be no easy task. 
From the beginning of the war the Dominion troops had faced all the most devilish 
engines of destruction the Hun could devise. They were chosen to lead a foriorn 
hope or left as a rear guard to cover a retreat, when a gas attack had done its work. 
They were m the danger zone at all times, and their casualties were heavy. It was 
with these troops that the Andover men elected to serve in 1917. 

Then came the dark days of 1918 when the sons of the Empire had their 
backs to the wall. Casualties came thick and fast, and Andover did not escape. 
Patrick O'Neil paid the supreme sacrifice fighting with the Victoria Rifles, and his 
death, the fifth of the local men, occurred before the first Andover boy with the 
American Expeditionary Force gave his life upon the battlefield of France. Others 
were maimed for life and came back after spending many weary months in the 
hospitals of France or England. Some went to Siberia, and Robert Hutcheson was 
the last of the Sons of the Empire to return from that far off land. 

Andover men did their part of a " far-flung battle line, " under the Union Jack 
or the Maple Leaf of Canada. They wallowed in the mud of the rat-infested 
trenches of Flanders and France, bravely withstanding the gas, the liquid fire, and 
every other form of destruction of the enemy. They bore the heat of the noon- 
day sun on the desert sands of Egypt, under the shadow of the Pyramids, with 
centuries looking down on them." At Gallipoli they shared in the heroic but 
badly planned attempt to capture the Golden Horn from the unspeakable Turk 



130 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

and thus open a way to the back door of the Kaiser's domain. They braved that 
malaria and the enemy at Saloniki. To Siberia Andover men went, and thousands 
of miles inland, mid the pines, the frost, and the snow of the far Northeast they 
fought the Bolsheviki. 

"What did the British do in the War?" was the question too often asked. 
The answer is found in the record of the Andover men who served under the Union 
Jack or wore the Maple Leaf of Canada. Fifty were in service. Five gold stars 
are on the Andover service flag for Pert, Cavan, Rae, Croall, O'Neil, — British 
and Canadians. Twelve gold crosses for wounds or gassed in action; the Dis- 
tinguished Conduct medal for extraordinary bravery under fire in the second bat- 
tle of the Somme, for an Andover man, a citizen of the United States, David 
Waldie. Fifty per cent of the men of Andover who fell in action were with the 
British or Canadians. That was what the British of Andover did in the World 
War. They had not been long enough in this land to become citizens. Had they 
been, they would have given the same kind of service for Old Glory and the cause. 

They were the sons of the Empire and their country called. They left their 
homes, their wives, their children to answer that call. They fought till the end, 
and with the combined effort of the Allied nations victory came. 

" It shall be their lifelong boast. 
That they counted not the cost, 
But at their Mother-Country's call they came. 
They came a wrong to right, 
They came to end the blight 
Of a vast ungodly might. 

Those who lived and those who died, 
They were one in noble pride 
Of desperate endeavor and duty nobly done; 
For their lives they risked and gave 
Very Soul of Life to save, 

And by their own great valor and the Grace of God they won. 
Britons, Britons, Britons are they ! 
Britons, every one!" 




Abbot Academy Girls in the Red Cross Parade 




The Phillips Academy Battalion 



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X 

THE SCHOOLS IN THE WAR 



PHILLIPS ACADEMY 

DURING the Civil War period, Phillips Academy, then under the direction 
of Principal Samuel H. Taylor, apparently took only a small part in the 
various patriotic demonstrations arranged in the town. The school was 
loyal and eager to help; but it preferred to act as a separate institution, isolated 
from the townspeople. Nothing could be more decidedly in contrast with this 
attitude than the position assumed by the Academy authorities from the beginning 
to the close of the World War. 

As we have seen, Phillips Academy moved in advance of public opinion in 
1917. Military training was established by vote of the students early in March; 
the Trustees adopted, in April, a resolution advocating universal military 
training; and, on April 28, an Andover Ambulance Unit, made up of twenty-two 
Phillips boys, sailed overseas. Outside contests in athletics were abandoned 
during the spring term, and school was placed on a war basis. Some short- 
sighted critics condemned the Academy for taking the war so seriously; but it 
was not long before the supporters of the "school as usual" doctrine discovered 
that Principal Stearns had had a further vision than them all. 

Those connected with Phillips Academy, whether instructors or students, 
tried simply to do their share as good citizens of the town, and to promote every 
patriotic movement. No "drive" was carried on without the cooperation of 
Phillips teachers, some of whom took regularly places of leadership. Dr. Stearns 
served on several committees, including the Committee of Public Safety, and 
presided over the great "Victory Banquet," when the boys were given their 
"Welcome Home"; Professor Charles H. Forbes was called upon for addresses 
on many significant occasions; Dr. Peirson S. Page had a distinguished record as 
captain of the Andover State Guard Company; Mr. Markham W. Stackpole and 
Mr. Frederick J. Daly were with the armies in France; Mr. Archibald Free- 
man spent a year as captain under the American Red Cross, chiefly in the 
Balkan States; and there were many others who, in civilian positions, gave 
freely of their time and money. 

There was no campaign for funds in which the boys of Phillips Academy did 
not participate. They gave to the Red Cross and to the Salvation Army; they 
bought Thrift Stamps and Liberty Bonds; and their contributions were credited, 



134 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

as they should have been, to the town of Andover. Brothers* Field was turned 
over gladly to the town by the Trustees for ceremonial occasions, and the Borden 
Gymnasium was used regularly as a drill hall and armory by the Andover Com- 
pany of the State guard. 

The PhilHps Battalion, formed in the spring of 1917, was soon able to present 
a creditable appearance, and it was not long before it was prepared to accept 
invitations to join in formal parades. The school authorities, not without some 
just pride, allowed the boys permission to march on such occasions. During the 
summ.er of 1918 the Phillips Summer Military Camp on Andover Hill gave a 
military tone to the ancient institution. 

Through the initiative of the Academy many stirring speakers were brought 
to the town. Such men as General Leonard Wood, Colonel Henry L. Stimson, 
Dr. Hugh Cabot, Major Ian Hay Beith, Captain Andre Morize, and others 
spoke before large audiences. 

Although the war record of Phillips alumni has little to do with the history 
of the town, it is, nevertheless, worth mentioning that at least twenty-four 
hundred graduates were enrolled in the various branches of the military or naval 
service, and that eighty-nine gave their lives in the cause of their country. Few 
of these, of course, were well known in Andover; but the stories told of their 
heroism and fidelity were read with satisfaction in the town where they had been 
educated. 

The full details of what was done by Phillips men in the World War have 
been given in another volume, and it is unnecessary to dwell further on that 
record. It is interesting, however, to note that the school and the town have 
never been more closely linked than they were in the stormy war days, and that 
the spirit thus developed is likely to be a permanent heritage of the conflict. 

ABBOT ACADEMY 

In Abbot Academy, as in the rest of Andover, the war brought out a strong 
feeUng of the responsibilities of citizenship and the need of organization and co- 
operation in the work of helping our own soldiers and sailors, our allies, and the 
people of war-stricken Europe. For stimulating this idea of responsibility and 
increasing the school's efhciency for service, a Patriotic League, under the ac- 
tive leadership of the principal. Miss Bertha Bailey, was established soon 
after America entered the war. In connection with the League were vol- 
untary classes for the study of the principles of democracy and of Civics, and in 
home nursing and surgical dressings. All the students and several members of the 
faculty were enrolled for Military Drill, under the supervision of Major R. N. 
Davy, Military Instructor, and Dr. P. S. Page, Athletic Instructor, both of 
PhilHps Academy. Under their careful training, the girls developed quick and 
accurate obedience to orders, and were able to take a dignified part in the two war 



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parades of the town, that of the Red Cross in the spring of 1918 and the Armistice 
Parade in November. 

During the two war years when labor was so scarce, the girls eagerly entered 
into the needs of the time, taking all the care of their own rooms, and doing much 
of the outdoor work on the grounds. Volunteers were needed for work in the 
garden and for lawn-mowing, and never was the response to the call lacking. In 
the large school war-garden most of the work of planting, cultivating, and weeding 
was done by the students. In 1918 the potato crop for the entire year's supply was 
planted by the girls. In the fall of that year, when the scarcity of labor threatened 
the loss of valuable crops, parties of fifty or more students offered their services 
to Mr. O. P. Chase and Mr. F.H.Foster for husking corn, and husked in all between 
two and three hundred bushels, turning over the honoraria received to the war 
fund. The response, too, to the call for food conservation was whole-hearted, the 
girls gladly cooperating with the house-keeping staff in economies in sugar and 
butter. Personal economy was practised in every way possible, and in the year 
1918 nearly $4000 was held by the students and faculty in Thrift and War Savings 
Stamps. Besides this many Liberty Bonds were bought. 

From the beginning of the war most of the spare time of the household was 
given to knitting, large quantities of yarn being bought and distributed among 
the students and faculty and domestic staff. The sweaters and stockings and 
scarves were at first sent overseas to British sailors, and later through the Red 
Cross to our own boys. In 1917, regular work in surgical dressings was started 
under the American Fund for French Wounded, large packages being sent off 
every few weeks. There were also evening classes for the maids. 

Throughout the war the girls were quick to respond to the many appeals that 
came for money for war and relief work. Early contributions were sent for 
Belgian, Syrian, Armenian, and PoHsh relief, and forty French orphans were 
adopted by the students and faculty. A further gift of $281 for French orphans 
and refugees was made to Baroness Huard after her moving account of the suffer- 
ings of the people of Northern France as they fled before the advancing German 
armies. Much interest was felt, too, in the talk by Miss Tileston on her work with 
the Serbian army. The sum of $230 was given her to take back to Serbia. Later, 
after the great needs were thrillingly set forth by Dr. Rosalie Morton, $1048 was 
given for Serbian education. There were two contributions for Near East relief, 
amounting in all to $655. The sufferings of the Armenians came very close to 
Abbot Academy when Mrs. Lyndon S. Crawford, an alumna, told something of her 
terrible experiences in Trebizond during the Armenian persecution, and when 
Mrs. Hildegarde Gutterson Smith, a recent graduate, gave an account of her 
post-war industrial and relief work in Turkey. The appeal for general European 
relief by Mr. Hoover in January, 1921, met with a response of $1367, and a table 
was reserved for the school at the "Invisible Guest" dinner in Symphony Hall. 
The enrolment for the Red Cross was always 100%. The sum of $1536 was con- 



136 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

tributed by Abbot Academy to the Andover drive for the Y. M. C. A. fund in 
1918, and $2801 to the War Work drive the next year. The entire sum approxi- 
mates $10,000. 

Whenever possible the school joined the town in its patriotic meetings. No- 
table occasions were the preparedness rally in the town hall, the service at the 
Free Church at which Captain Ian Hay Beith spoke, and the celebration of the 
signing of the Armistice in the South Church. Very inspiring were the morning 
exercises near the Punchard School when the enlisted Andover boys left for camp. 
One of the first men to leave Andover for the war was in the employ of Abbot 
Academy, Norman K. McLeish, who in 1914 worked his way to England, and 
joined the 2nd Cameron Highlanders. 

In Andover town. Abbot Academy representatives carried heavy responsi- 
bilities. Mrs. H. H. Tyer became in 1914 the first chairman of European relief 
work through the Red Cross. Miss Elizabeth and Miss Esther Smith responded in 
hearty and efficient fashion to the appeal for garments for the French wounded 
voiced by their sister in Paris, Mrs. Marlborough Churchill, — an appeal so per- 
sonal as to arouse at once the interest and support of the townspeople. Their 
enthusiasm was later transferred to the Red Cross, a valuable service which is 
recorded elsewhere in this book. Mrs. Markham W. Stackpole will be especially 
remembered for her untiring labors on the Surgical Dressings, and among the 
influenza-stricken families. Mrs. John V. Holt conducted one of the Liberty 
Loan campaigns among the women. These are but a few outstanding names in a 
long list of women whose steady, unremitting efforts in many and often unappreci- 
ated lines of work added to the general sum of Andover war service. Several of 
the younger Abbot alumnae volunteered to leave home for nursing, farming, 
Y. M. C. A. canteen, and government work. 

The patriotic service of the two thousand five hundred scattered members 
of Greater Abbot Academy, forms, even in the incomplete records on file, an im- 
pressive story in itself. There were doctors, nurses, organizers, administrators, 
librarians, farmers, — and greater than these, mothers, sisters, and wives giving 
their all. The Honor Roll of those who served overseas in different capacities, 
some of them amid hardships which brought out heroic qualities, records the 
names of twenty alumnae and former teachers, headed by Mrs. Mary Smith 
Churchill and including Miss Helen Whittemore and Miss Cornelia Williams, 
former Andover girls. The one gold star commemorates the work of Miss Eliza- 
beth Tyler, a former teacher in the department of French, who gave up her life 
in France in February, 1919. 

Reports of these noble women, at home and abroad, rising to great emergen- 
cies of responsibility or danger, or patiently working through weary days of 
drudgery, came back to Abbot Academy and reacted upon the impressionable 
young students, inspiring them to steadiness of purpose, and giving them an 
insight into the joy of sacrifice for a great cause. 




American Legion Parading 




I'hillips Acauemv Bahaliux Bayonet Drill 



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THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 

As was quite natural, the school children of Andover, stirred by the patriotic 
spirit which they saw and felt everywhere around them, did their best to contrib- 
ute to the winning of the war. It is impossible in the space allowed to give more 
than a rough outhne of what was actually accomplished ; but it must be remem- 
bered that practically every relief activity found support among the teachers and 
students in the Andover schools. 

Quite naturally the Junior Red Cross was an important element in the ac- 
tivities, and the membership in that organization regularly consisted of practically 
every pupil in the various schools. Many of the students had war gardens at their 
own homes, and at one time an exhibition netting $10 from the sale of vegetables 
and canned goods was held. The Stowe School gave $5 a month regularly to the 
Red Cross Fund during one whole year. 

In the Stowe School on January 1, 1919, out of a total number of pupils ag- 
gregating 181, 163 owned Thrift and War Savings Stamps. The total holdings 
of the pupils reached $2972.91, an average per pupil of $16.43. In this school a 
$100 Liberty Bond and a $50 Liberty Bond were purchased and presented to the 
school committee. The Stowe School contributed to the Second Red Cross Fund 
the sum of $80 in cash, which was earned by the students ; to the United War Work 
Campaign $79 was pledged by individual pupils; and to the European Relief 
Fund $35. 

The activities thus outlined in the Stowe School were carried out in the other 
schools to practically the same degree, differing only in the number of children 
concerned. One of the classes in Punchard High School supported a French 
orphan for nearly a year. Many of the school children, under the direction of 
teachers, wrote letters to French homes for the purpose of encouraging the right 
attitude towards war work. 

In general, it may be said that the schools throughout the war reflected the 
patriotism and the loyalty of the town. There was hardly a child who did not do 
something in a small way to help the Allies and their cause. As an education in 
patriotism and as a stimulus to future philanthropic activities, the period of the 
world war will long show its effect on the students, who, while it was going on, were 
enrolled in the Andover Public Schools. 



XI 
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS 

"In faith and hope the world will disagree 
But all mankind's concern is charity." 

It is possible in this book to touch only cursorily upon many forms of war 
activity which, at the time, were of inestimable importance in furthering the mo- 
bilization of our national resources, and which, therefore, deserve full recogni- 
tion. To understand how far-reaching was the conflict, one must realize that, 
from the Alleghanies to the Sierras, there were everywhere little groups, meeting, 
often informally and intermittently, to do what was spoken of, rather vaguely, as 
"war work"; that in most communities one "drive" was sharp on the heels of 
another, with very little pause for taking breath, and each absorbing for the mo- 
ment the thoughts and the energies of a considerable number of solicitors; and that 
a local newspaper, like the Andover Townsman, would report each week a great 
variety of meetings and interests, some, indeed, local and transitory, but each con- 
tributing its "bit" to the larger result. 

Among the campaigns of national scope, the so-called Red Triangle War 
Work "drive" for funds, carried on in November, 1917, for the benefit of the 
Young Men's Christian Association, was of high significance. The local Chair- 
man, Mr. Frederick H. Jones, called a meeting on Tuesday evening, November 
13th, of workers and interested citizens, the speakers being Principal Alfred E. 
Stearns, of Phillips Academy, Mr. M. M. Converse, of Andover, and Mr. George 
M. Day, a Y. M. C. A. worker who had spent eight years in Russia. After this 
enthusiastic beginning, the captains in charge of the various districts set about 
the task of raising Andover's quota of $15,000. Through a carefully arranged di- 
vision of labor Mr. Jones, after ten days, was ready to report that the town had 
considerably exceeded the amount assigned to it. In this "drive" the response of 
the factory workers was especially noticeable. 

Even more remarkable in its achievement was the United War Work "drive" 
of the following year, the object of which was to raise $150,000,000, to be divided 
among the Y. M. C. A., the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Board, the 
War Camp Community Service, the American Library Association, and the Salva- 
tion Army, The local campaign, for a quota set at the large sum of $30,000, was 
also placed in charge of Mr. Jones, who followed the same methods which had al- 
ready proven so effective. The solicitation was announced to begin on Monday, 
November 11, 1918; and, in order to usher the campaign in properly, a mass meet- 



MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS 141 

ing was arranged for the preceding Sunday evening, on which occasion the Rev- 
erend John T. Ullom, a Y. M. C. A. representative and chaplain who had been 
wounded overseas, was the principal speaker. On the following morning came the 
joyful news of the armistice, and the town, as we have seen, was given over for 
forty-eight hours to the holiday spirit; the celebrating over, however, the citizens 
responded with almost unprecedented liberality to the United War Work appeal. 
The total sum subscribed was $41,332, an amount larger in proportion to our as- 
signment than that raised in any town or city in our section. Many persons 
pledged sums ranging from $100 to $1000; while the number of gifts ranging from 
$1.00 to $100 was more than 800. 

This particular campaign was exceptional in its method of organization, 
which was most comprehensive. Special talks given before the students of Phil- 
lips and Abbot Academies, and in the various churches, brought astonishingly 
good results, and the finest kind of publicity was available in the Andover and 
Lawrence newspapers. But of even more practical value was the work of the so- 
licitors, who made it a point to see personally every man or woman on their lists. 
A complete list of all the contributors, pubHshed in the Andover Townsman for 
November 29, included the name of every patriotic citizen in the town. 

Andover Council, Number 1078, Knights of Columbus, was represented in 
the World War by sixty-five of its members. The first official act of the Council 
after the United States entered the war was to instruct the Treasurer to pay out 
of the general fund of the Order the dues and assessments of all members who 
might enter the service of our country. While the Andover boys in the national 
guard units which later became a part of the Yankee Division were at Boxford, 
the Council presented a sum of money to the Reverend Father Farrelly, to be used 
at his discretion for the benefit of the soldiers under his care. During the progress 
of the Knights of Columbus campaign in 1917 each member of the Andover Coun- 
cil was assessed two dollars; the amount thus realized, together with a collection 
taken up in St. Augustine's Church, netted approximately $1000, which was for- 
warded to the Supreme Officers and devoted to welfare work. 

Unique among the war-time organizations of the town was the Andover Com- 
fort Committee, form^ed on October 3, 1917, and consisting of Mr. Frederick L. 
Collins (Chairman), Mr. George Dick (Secretary), and Mr. Ernest L. King (Treas- 
urer). The aim of the committee was to provide for Andover's service men some 
of the small comforts not regularly issued by the War Department, and to pro- 
mote their welfare in every possible way. From various sources, including indi- 
vidual subscriptions, dances, band concerts, mite boxes, and a minstrel show, the 
Httle group secured money enough to carry out their plans, and, before the war 
was over, had expended nearly $2000, every penny of which had been used to help 
soldiers and their families. 

The Comfort Committee sent out thousands of cigarettes. Through its 
agency, each Andover boy in the 102nd Field Artillery received a package for 



142 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

Christmas, 1917. The Committee gave a service flag to the family of each soldier 
and sailor; and it presented to the town a large service flag, bearing the number of 
those in active service (630), together with smaller special stars for those who 
had been decorated, wounded, or killed. 

After the signing of the armistice, the Comfort Committee members were 
among the first to realize that the service men, after being mustered out, would 
need a well-earned rest and would welcome a place where they could get together. 
Accordingly rooms were rented in the Burns Building, on Main Street, and sup- 
plied with a sufficient amount of furniture to make them attractive. Until the 
formation of the local post of the American Legion, this place was used as a center 
for the boys as soon as they were discharged ; and the Andover Post later took over 
the same rooms for its headquarters. 

It is not easy to restrain one's enthusiasm over the sympathy and intelligence 
shown by the Comfort Committee in discovering and satisfying the needs of the 
service men. The Committee, in doing things that came within the scope of no 
other organization, had a useful and important mission to fulfill. Functioning al- 
ways in a quiet, unostentatious way, it had very little publicity, but the boys all 
knew and appreciated what it was accomplishing. 

There was, in reality, almost no one of Andover's many social groups which 
did not devote itself to some form of useful war activity. The Woman's Rehef 
Corps, cooperating with the Andover Mothers' Club, presented to each boy at the 
time of his departure, a complete kit. By August 3, 1917, the ladies of the Corps 
had given away no fewer than fifty-one comfort kits, the money for which had 
been raised entirely by private subscription. The Woman's Relief Corps sewed 
regularly for the Red Cross, arranged for patriotic meetings, and did its best to 
keep the fire of loyalty always at white heat. 

There were other groups of ladies which must be mentioned, although their 
excellent work cannot be described in detail. The Mothers' Club sent many 
gifts to the local boys in France, including gloves, mittens, and other articles of 
clothing; and at one period its members prepared a large number of layettes for 
French babies. The Tuesday Club was, of course, devoted to sewing for the bene- 
fit of the Red Cross; and, on April 9, 1918, the members subscribed over $1000 for 
the "adoption" of French orphans, a sum which was considerably increased dur- 
ing the ensuing weeks. Groups like the Ladies' Benevolent Society of the Free 
Church, and the Girls' Friendly Society of Christ Church, to say nothing of many 
similar philanthropic associations, had a regular schedule of sewing for the Red 
Cross, and met frequently for alleviating cases of special need. The Barnstormers, 
a local dramatic organization, turned over to the Red Cross the sum of $220, this 
being the amount realized from one of their plays. As for the November Club its 
rooms, so conveniently located, were at the disposal of every good cause, and in 
them were given many benefit card parties and teas. 




George William Simpson 

Privale, Officers' Training Camp, U. S. Army 

Died, November 9, 1918 



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THE ROLL OF THOSE IN SERVICE 145 

The succession of smaller campaigns for worthy objects seemed never-end- 
ing. One week would come a request for phonograph records, playing cards, games 
and picture puzzles for wounded soldiers; a few days later there would be an 
appeal for tinfoil, collapsible tubes, and pewter, to be used for commendable ob- 
jects. There was a month when everybody saved peachstones, for use in the Gas 
Defense Department; there was another when everybody bought "Smileage 
Books," to contribute to the entertainment of the boys in the cantonments. The 
Memorial Hall Library assisted in collecting books for distribution among the sol- 
diers, and over ten hundred volumes were sent away from the town to be placed in 
different camps. 

At the period when it was apparent that the scarcity of coal would be likely to 
be dangerous to industry, a local Fuel Committee, consisting of Mr. E. Barton 
Chapin (Chairman), Mr. Virgil D. Harrington, and Mr. Alexander Lamont, took 
charge of all matters connected with the distribution and the economical use of all 
kinds of fuel. Operating under the direction of Mr. James J. Storrow, the New 
England Fuel Administrator, this committee made recommendations regarding 
coal prices, and actually, in January, 1918, established stringent regulations re- 
garding the purchase and use of coal. Most of these restrictions were repealed 
early in March, 1918, when the emergency had passed. 

It is indeed surprising how little was neglected in those busy times. 
In September, 1917, as soon as the drafted men began to leave for camp, it was 
recognized that some systematic effort must be made to keep an accurate record 
of Andover's service men, and a committee, consisting of Mr. John C. Angus, Mr. 
Frank H. Hardy, and Miss Nellie H. Farmer, was appointed to take charge of the 
accumulation and preservation of information regarding our soldiers and sailors. 
Mr. George Dick was later added to this committee. To their efforts, combined 
with the excellent work done by Mr. George A. Christie, of the Lawrence Tribune, 
and Mr. George A. Higgins, the Andover Town Clerk, we are indebted for an ac- 
curate Roll of Honor. 

In closing this brief notice of some of the less conspicuous, but no less worthy, 
forms of the war spirit, it can only be said that there must be inevitably many 
omissions. So manywere the separate organizations, so widespread were the activi- 
ties, that it is impossible to be sure that all have been mentioned. To make the 
record entirely complete one would have to go into countless homes, some of them 
in remote sections of the town, where every evening the mother took down her 
knitting to make socks for the boys overseas; and one would have to give credit to 
the many who bought thrift stamps or contributed to the Red Cross when their 
own needs were very great. The war was won by this kind of cooperation; and 
every man, woman, or child who did his share to the best of his ability helped to 
make victory possible. 



XII 
ANDOVER POST, NUMBER EIGHT, AMERICAN LEGION 

" In heaven we place a manly trust, 
That truth and justice will prevail, 
And every scheme of bondage fail." 

It was both fitting and inevitable that some permanent form of veterans' 
organization should eventuate from the World War ; the only problem was to de- 
cide which one of several which were started almost simultaneously would be most 
likely to endure. The American Legion, estabHshed late in 1918 by a group of well- 
known soldiers then stationed near Paris, had, however, a marked advantage in 
personnel and prestige, and was destined to distance all its competitors. Within a 
year it was a national order, with a membership running into the hundreds of 
thousands and with a power which could not be mistaken. 

So far as Andover is concerned, the local post originated in some informal 
conversations among a few interested service men, who, after investigating the 
situation thoroughly, invited several others to join them in issuing a call for a 
preliminary meeting. Those who signed the original call represented most bran- 
ches of the service, as follows: George Abbot (F. A.), Maurice J. Curran (F. A.), 
Frederick J. Daly (M. T. C), James Dick (F. A.), Claude M. Fuess (Q. M. C), 
James B. Gillen (T. C), WilHam Holden (Inf.), N. McLeish (British), James K. 
Selden (A. S.), Horace Hale Smith (Navy), M. W. Stackpole (Chaplain), and 
Philip W. Thomson (Q. M. C). A committee of these men arranged for a mass 
meeting on Tuesday, May 20, 1919, in the Town Hall. A band was engaged, and 
every efifort was made to bring out a large body of veterans. The presiding officer 
Chaplain Markham W. Stackpole, after explaining the object of the gathering, 
introduced as the principal speaker Colonel Herbert, of the 102nd Field Artillery, 
26th Division, one of the founders of the American Legion. At the conclusion of 
his convincing address, the men present voted to organize a local post. Mr. Stack- 
pole was elected temporary chairman, and Dr. Fuess temporary clerk. A Com- 
mittee on Organization, appointed by the Chair, was made up of Horace Hale 
Smith (Chairman), Roy A. Daniels, Norman McLeish, and William Holden. A 
Committee on Nominations was also chosen, consisting of Fred Cheever (Chair- 
man), James K. Selden, and Frederick P. Hulme. On this occasion ninety-one 
signified their intention of becoming members. 

The first regular meeting of Andover Post was held on the evening of Tuesday, 
June 3, in the rooms of the Army and Navy Club. It was a hot night, and not 



ANDOVER POST, AMERICAN LEGION 147 

many were present; but an organization was effected, with Philip W. 
Thomson as Commander, George A. Abbott as Vice-Commander, Frederick P. 
Hulme as Adjutant, William Holden as Finance Officer, Claude M. Fuess as His- 
torian, and MarkhamW. Stackpole as Chaplain. Arthur W. Cole, Arthur Jenkins, 
and Norman McLeish were elected to the Executive Committee. At this time an 
application for a charter signed by twenty-one men was prepared and sent to the 
State Executive Committee, with the result that the Andover Post secured the 
low number "8", thus being one of the eadiest to be formed in the Common- 
wealth. 

The local post having been established, rooms were secured in the Burns 
building, and a "drive" was made for members. On September 2, at the Town 
Hall, there was a meeting at which Sergeant-Major Harry R. Williams, of the 
101st Ammunition Train, gave the important address, and which was attended by 
over two hundred service men. At the Welcome Home celebration, on September 
6, Commander Thomson, of the Andover Legion, received a beautiful standard 
from Comrade E. Kendall Jenkins, of the William F. Bartlett Post, Number 99, 
Grand Army of the Republic. In reply to Mr. Jenkins, Captain Thomson said, 
in part: — 

"That our colors should have come to us from your hands is what every one 
of us would have desired. You have entrusted that flag to us. This great and 
generous celebration this town has given us. Perhaps the very best token of ap- 
preciation and thanks that we can give to all of you today is to say to everyone 
here that the American Legion throughout the length and breadth of this land 
has taken upon itself to guard that flag, — even as you of the Grand Army have 
guarded it." 

Andover Post, Number Eight, American Legion was now on a firm footing 
and a vigorous campaign brought the roll of members up to over two hundred. 
On September 16, in appreciation of what the town had done, the post passed the 
following resolution : — 

"Voted, that we, the members of Andover Post, Number 8, American Legion, 
desire to place on record our deep and heartfelt thanks to all the good people of 
Andover for the loyal and generous support so constantly given us through our 
period of service during the Great War, and especially for the wonderful spirit 
shown in the Welcome Home celebration. " 

The delegates to the first state convention, elected on October 7, were Wil- 
liam J. Cronin, William Higgins, and George Abbott. On October 12 the post 
held its first dance, the precursor of a long series of successful entertainments. 
On December 30 officers for the following year were elected as follows: Com- 
mander, Edward R. Lawson ; Vice-Commander, George Abbott; Adjutant, Arthur 
R. Lewis; Finance Officer, WilHam Holden; Chaplain, Markham W. Stackpole; 
Historian, Claude M. Fuess; War Risk Officer, William B. Higgins; Employment 
Officer, Ralph E. Nash. At this time the membership roll included 283 names, a 



148 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

remarkable showing for a town the size of Andover. Within a short period Mr' 
Lawson was obliged to resign his position, and was succeeded by Paul M. Cheney, 
who served through the remainder of the year. 

It has been a pleasant privilege of the local post to participate in the various 
patriotic demonstrations held from time to time in the town. On Memorial Day 
especially the members have been proud to join with the veterans of the Grand 
Army of the Republic in paying reverence to the heroic dead. In cases where 
the bodies of Andover men who fell in the World War have been returned to this 
country, the American Legion has taken part in the funeral services and has 
escorted the body to its last resting-place. 

The Legion has also been instrumental in caring for disabled or incapacitated 
ex-service men, whether members of the Legion or not. No small share of this 
labor of love has been performed by the Women's Auxiliary, composed of the 
women relatives of Legion members and established in Andover during November, 
1920. The first officers of the local post of the Women's Auxiliary were Mrs. 
Bartlett H. Hayes (President), Mrs. Frank Foster (Vice-President), Mrs. Thaxter 
Eaton (Secretary), and Mrs. Arthur Lewis (Treasurer). 

The Legion early desired to preserve in some permanent way the records of 
Andover soldiers and sailors, and, through the generous financial support of the 
town, that aim has been made possible in this volume, prepared and published 
under the auspices of Andover Post, Number Eight. 

The further activities of Andover Post do not fall logically within the scope of 
this volume. Under the present Commander, Major Bartlett H. Hayes, the post 
is flourishing, and taking, we believe, a useful part in the affairs of the town. The 
members may be trusted to assume a position of leadership in every movement to 
defend the national ideals and to uphold the principles of true Americanism. It 
will be their function to carry on into peace times that unselfish public spirit 
which this book has described and which was, in many respects, the finest product 
of the World War. 




Officers of Aneover Post, Number Eight, American Legion 

1921 

C M. FuEss M. W. Stackpole T. Eaton W. H. Kydd 

(Historian) (Chaplain) (Finance Officer) (Sergeant-at-Arms) 

F. H. Cheever B. H. Hayes W. B. Higgins 

(Adjutant) (Commander) (Vice-Commander) 



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THE ROLL OF THOSE IN SERVICE 

THE list which follows, comprising the names and records of the Andover 
men and women in the military, naval, or marine service of the United 
States or her Allies during the World War, has been prepared under great 
difficulties. In spite of the fact that three separate letters were sent to each serv- 
ice man in the town and notices published at intervals in all the local newspapers, 
there have been many persons who have made no reply whatever, even of acknow- 
ledgment or refusal. The editor has done his best to follow up every such case, 
but only too often without success. Some men have moved away, without leaving 
an address ; some have politely disclaimed any wish to be included in the roll of 
honor; and a few, upon being urged in the matter, have become positively indig- 
nant. This record, however, has been checked with every available source of in- 
formation, including the lists kept by the town and the various social and fraternal 
organizations. In spite of the utmost care, there must, nevertheless, be many 
imperfections, errors, and omissions. The editor can only beg from those con- 
cerned the indulgence which should always be extended to any one who is so rash 
as to undertake a record involving so much complexity and detail. 



ABBOT, GEORGE EZRA: 

Born, Mar. 22, 1898, Melrose, Mass.; enl. May 9, 1917, as cand. O. T. C, Plattsburg; 
com. 1st Lt., Inf. and as. to Hdqtrs. Co., 301st Inf., Camp Devens, Sept. 17, 1917; made 
Bn. Adj't., 1st Bn. ,301st Inf.; sailed overseas, June 25, 1918, arriving in Eng., July 7, and 
in Fr., July 21; attached to 41st Div. (1st Replacement Depot), St. Aignan, Fr., Nov. 1, 
1918-Mar. 1, 1919; with Sorbonne Detachment, Paris, Mar. 1-July 10, 1919; hon. dis.. 
Camp Dix, Aug. 4, 1919. 
Present address — c-o Brown Bros. & Co., 59 Wall St., New York City. 

ABBOT, JOHN RADFORD: 

Born, Apr. 30, 1893, Melrose, Mass.; enl. June 2, 1917. Served with Sec. 10, U. S. Army 
Amb. Service, June 7, '17 to Sept. 12, '17. Sailed for France Aug. 7, '17. With Sec. 585, 
U. S. A. A. S., French Army, Sept. 14, '17-Apr. 23, '19. Served continuously at the Front 
from Oct. 8, '17 to Nov. 11, '18, with 128th Div. of the French Army, in Baccarat sector, 
Somme defensive, Villers, Cotterets and Marne offensive, Soissons, Aisne offensive, 
Chemin-des-Dames and Ypres Lys offensive. Also 3 mos. in Germany, Dec. 6, '18 to 
Mar. 13, '19. Made Sergt., 1st class, July 1, '17; 1st Lt., U. S. A. A. S., Sept. 12, '17. 
Slightly wounded at Chaudun, July 22, '18. Awarded "Croix de Guerre" with three 
citations. Returned to America, Apr. 19, '19. Hon. dis., Camp Dix, Apr. 23, '19. 
Present address — Duxbury, Mass. 

ABBOT, LESTER FREEMAN: 

Born, Andover, Mass., Aug. 26, 1895; enl. Oct. 5, 1917; assigned to 18th Co., 151st Depot 
Brigade, at Camp Devens. Transferred to 304th Ambulance, to 6th Co., Depot Brigade^ 
and to 301st Auxiliary Remount Depot. Hon. dis., May 15, 1919. 
Present address — Dascomb Road, Andover, Mass. 



152 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

ABBOTT, ALLEN F.: 

Born Aug. 17, 1872, Andover, Mass.; enl. Apr. 1, 1917 as Ch. Carp. Mate. Still in service. 
Home address — 33 High St., Andover, Mass. 

ABBOTT, GEORGE A.: 

Born, Nov. 27, 1897, Andover, Mass., enl., Apr. 10, 1917 as Sgt. Served with Bat. F, 102nd 
F. A. Sailed overseas with 26th Div., and went through every engagement of the Div., 
coming home with them. Hon. dis.. Camp Devens, Apr. 29, '19. 
Present address — 33 High St., Andover, Mass. 

ABBOTT, LUCY BALLARD: 

Born May 11, 1887, Andover, Mass.; enl. April 12, 1918, as Reserve Army Nurse. At Camp 
Lee Base Hosp.,Apr. 12-June 14, '17. Went overseas with Base Hosp. 44, July 14, '18. 
Hon. dis.. New York, July 11, 1919. 
Home address — Andover, Mass. (At present in China.) 

ABBOTT, PAUL J.: 

Born, Andover, Mass. Entered service Oct. 11, '18, with Springfield College S. A. T. C. 

Hon. dis., Dec. 11, 1918 at Springfield. 

Present address — 315 Pearl St., Hartford, Conn. 

ALLEN, NORMAN TOWNE: 

Born, May 31, 1899, Frye Village, Mass.; entered service Oct. 10, '18 as App. Sea., with 
U. S. N. R. F. at M. I. T., Cambridge, Mass. Released from active duty, Dec. 17, '18. 
Present address — 1 Union St., Shawsheen Village, Mass. 

ANDERSON, JOHN ALFRED: 

Born, May 11, 1893, Hubbardston, Mass.; enl. Dec. 4, 1917, as Priv. 1st CI. At Fort 
Oglethorpe, Ga., with the first Sanitary Squad in the U.S. Army, until Feb. 4, '18, sailing for 
France on that date, arriving at Brest, Feb. 24, '18. Cooked for Camp Hospital No. 11 
for three months, and then drove an Ambulance. Returned to U. S. May 24, '19. Hon. 
dis., Camp Devens, June 4, 1919. 
Present address — Clark Road, Ballardvale, Mass. 

ANDERSON, ROBERT W. : 

Born, Arbroath, Scotland; enl. Oct. 4, 1917; 69th Canadian Regiment. Hon. dis., June 1» 
1919. Present address — 3 Buxton Ct., Andover, Mass. 

ARMOUR, CLAUDE: 

Enl., 1918, with McLean Kilties, Canada; hon. dis., 1919. 

ARMOUR, JAMES: 

Born, Johnson, Scotland. 14th Battalion, No. 3 Co., Canadian Forces; enl. Jan. 1918; 
assigned to 1st Quebecs at Montreal, Canada. Sailed from Halifax, N. S. and arrived at 
Liverpool, Eng. ; sailed from Liverpool, Eng., and returned to Halifax, N. S. Served 11 
months with B. E. F., Canadian Army. Engaged in the battles of Amiens, Arras, and Cam- 
brai. Received shrapnel wound in Jan. and was wounded again, Sept. 28, 1918. Hon. dis., 
Jan. 1919. 
Present address — 38 Main St., Andover, Mass. 

AUCHTERLONIE, ALEXANDER: 

Born, Sept. 23, 1887, Arbroath, Scotland; enl. Jan. 19, 1918 with 1st Depot Bn., New Bruns- 
wick Regiment, St. John, N. B. Made Corp. Mar. 16, '18; Sgt., May 21, '18. Hon. dis., 
Dec. 22, '18, as Platoon Sgt. 
Present address — 79 School St., Andover, Mass. 



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AUCHTERLONIE, JOHN CARGILL: 

Born, 1887, Arbroath, Scotland; enl., Dec. 14, 1917, at Fort Slocum, as private; trans, to 
Kelly Field, Texas, with Mechanical Detachment, and later to Waco, Texas, and Camp 
Green, N. €.; trans. May 28, 1918, to 276th Aero Squadron, Camp Jackson, S. C; pro. 
Corp'l, Serg't, and Serg't 1st CI.; hon. dis., Feb. 20, 1919, Camp Jackson. 
Present address — 65 Red Spring Road, Andover, Mass. 

BACON, EDWARD LEWIS: 

Born, No. Shapleigh, Maine; enl. Feb. 1, 1918. Assigned to Naval Reserve Force; reported 
March 7, 1918 at U. S. Naval Radio School at Cambridge; Naval Reserve. Hingham 
Hon. dis., Jan. 15, 1919. 

BAILEY, ARLON W.: 

Inducted Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 

Present address — River Road, R. F. D. No. 1, Andover, Mass. 

BAILEY, WILLIAM HENRY: 

Born, Jan. 22, 1894, Andover, Mass.; enl. July 24, 1918. Camp Devens, July 24 to Aug. 
18, '18, 24th Co. Det. 6th Bn. Depot Brigade; Aug. 18-Jan. 21, '19, 12th Div., Co. D, 36th 
M. G. B. Hon. dis.. Camp Devens, Jan. 21, 1919. 
Present address — River Road, Andover, Mass. 

BAKER, JOHN H.: 

Born, Andover, Mass.; enl. when Bat. F of Lowell was formed; mustered in May 18, 1917; 
drilled at Lowell and trained at Boxford; went to France in Oct. with 102nd F. A., 26th Div.; 
took part in all battles of 26th Div.; died of bronchial pneumonia in France, Jan. 3, 1919. 

BAKER, RALPH F.: 

Born July 8, 1895, Andover, Mass.; enl. Apr. 29, 1918 — 11th Co. 3rd Bn. 151 D. B., Camp 

Devens. Hon. dis.. May 20, 1918. 

Present address — 19 Barnard St., Andover, Mass. 

BARNARD, FOSTER CARNES: 

Born, Nov. 28, 1896, Andover, Mass.; enl. July 5, 1918, as Elec, 3rd CI. (R). Hon. dis., 

Rockport, Mass., Aug. 7, 1919. 

Present address — Elm Square, Andover, Mass. 

BARNES, LAWRENCE GRANVILLE: 

Born Brookline, Mass.; inducted Nov. 9, 1918; assigned to Div. No. 21, Georgetown, Mass 

Hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 

Present address — 125 Haverhill St., Andover, Mass. 

BARRETT, JOHN JOSEPH: 

Born, Sept. 5, 1895, Andover, Mass.; enl. July 24, 1918. At Camp Devens with 24th Co., 
6th Bn. of Inf. Depot Brig. Hon. dis., Camp Devens, Dec. 11, 1918. 
Present address— 17 Harding St., Andover, Mass. 

BATCHELOR, JAMES PORTER: 

Born, Andover, Mass. ; enl. for duration of war; reported July 29, 1917; assigned to Canadian 
Army Medical Corps at Toronto, Canada, No. 2 Training Depot. Hon. dis. Jan. 27, 1919. 
Present address — 54 Bowdoin St., Lawrence, Mass. 



154 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

BATCHELOR, WM. S.: 

Born, Lawrence, Mass.; enl. June 25, 1918; assigned to 153 Depot Brigade — 32d Co. at 
Camp Dix, N. J. Transferred to 151st Depot Brigade. Sailed from U. S. Aug. 23, 1918; 
arrived at port overseas Sept. 5, 1918. Sailed from port overseas Feb. 23, 1919; arrived 
at Hoboken, March 7, 1919. Co. D, 336 Machine Gun Battalion —87th Division. Hon, dis., 
Mar. 18, 1919. 
Present address — 7 Buxton Ct., Andover, Mass. 

BATESON, GEORGE: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — 20 Brechin Terrace. 

BATESON, WILLIAM: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — 20 Brechin Terrace. 

BATTLES, JOSEPH PORTER: 

Born, Apr. 8, 1892, Lawrence, Mass.; enl. with the French Army, July 9, 1917; with the 
American Army, Sept. 1, 1917 at Lanchy, France. Served with the American Field Service 
in Section 71, S. S. U. 71. Changed to S. S. U. 641 Amb. Am. Service on joining American 
Army. In the following battles and campaigns — Somme Defensive, Aug. 21 to Oct. 30, 
'17; Verdun Defensive, Nov. 2 to Dec. 8, '17; Argonne Defensive, Dec. 27, '17 to May 17, 
'18; St. Mihiel Defensive, May 26 to July 23, '18; Aisne Offensive, Aug. 3 to Sept. 18, '18, 
with 10th French Army; October 24 to Nov. 11, '18, Serre Offensive. Gassed, but not dis- 
abled. Awarded American Field Service Medal. Section 641 was cited on Oct. 28 by the 
Gen'l. of the I7th French Division, for work done Aug. 21-26, '18. Citation signed by 
Petain. Belongs to the Paris (France) Post No. 1 of the American Legion. Hon. dis.. 
Camp Devens, Apr. 17, 1919. 
Present address — 255 Fort Washington Ave., New York City. 

BATTLES, RICHARD OLIVER: 

Born, Nov. 23, 1894, North Andover, Mass.; enl. with American Field Service, Ambulance 
Section No. 71, June, 1917; Unit transferred to U. S. Army, Sept., 1917, Section No. 641. 
Reached France July 9, '17. Assigned to 148th Division, French Infantry, 3rd Army. In 
the following battles and campaigns — Somme Defensive, Aug. 21 to Oct. 30, '17; Verdun 
Defensive, Nov. 2 to Dec. 8, '17; Argonne Defensive, Dec. 27, '17 to May 17, '18; St. Mihiel 
Defensive, May 26 to July 23, '18; Aisne Offensive, Aug. 3 to Sept. 18, '18; with 10th French 
Army, October 24 to Nov. 11, '18. With French Army of Occupation at Saar Louis, Rein- 
ish, Prussia, Dec. '18 to Mar., '19. Gassed but not disabled. Awarded American Field 
Service Medal. Section 641 was cited on Oct. 28 by the Gen'l of the 17th French Division, 
for work done Aug. 21-26, '18. Citation signed by Petain. Member of the Paris (France) 
Post No. 1 of the American Legion. Hon. dis.. Camp Devens, Apr. 17, 1919. 
Present address — Paris, France. (Home, 18 Wolcott Ave., Andover, Mass.) 

BEAULIEU, EDGAR: 

Enl., 1918, Camp Devens; hon. dis., 1919. 
BEAULIEU, JOSEPH: 

Born, Wolfstown, Canada; enl. Oct. 22, 1918; assigned to 33rd Regiment — C. A. C. at 

Fort Andrews; transferred to 28th Regt. — Battery C; 13th Co. Boston C. A. C. Hon. 

dis., March 27, 1919. 

Present address — Essex St., Andover, Mass. 

BELL, HOWARD W.: 

Born, Aug. 22, 1885, Andover, Mass.; enl. Oct. 23, 1918, F. A. C. O. T. S., Camp Zachary 
Taylor, Ky. Hon. dis.. Camp Zachary Taylor, Dec. 1, 1918. Died August, 1921, at 
Andover. 



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BERRY, RALPH T.: 

Born, Dec. 18, 1890, Andover, Mass.; enl. Sept. 15, 1917, — Co. B., 302 M. G. B., Camp 

Devens.; hon. dis., Dec. 1918. 

Present address — 56 Maple Ave., Andover, Mass. 

BIOTTA, CAMILLE ERNEST: 

Born, Concord, N. H.; inducted, Feb. 26, 1918; assigned to 6th Co., 2nd Batt., 151st D. B. 

at Camp Devens. Hon. dis., Dec. 3, 1918. 

Present address — 7 Brechin Terrace, Andover, Mass. 

BLACK, ROBERT T. N.: 

Born Dec. 24, 1896, Arbroath, Scotland; enl. Sept. 3, 1918, Priv. Istcl., Medical Dept. U. S. 
General Hospital No. 41, Fox Hills, Staten Island, N. Y. Made Sgt. Med. Dept., July 1, 
1919. Hon. dis., Dec. 13, 1920, U. S. Gen. Hosp. No. 41, Staten Island, N. Y. 
Present address — 3 Brechin Terrace, Andover, Mass. 

BLAND, JAMES HENRY: 

Born, Nov. 30, 1888, Yorkshire, England; enl. Dec, 1917; Sapper, Royal Engineers, Hon. 
dis.. Mar. 31, 1919, Winchester Repatriation Camp. 
Present address — 29 Shawsheen Road, Andover, Mass. 

BOLAND, STEPHEN AUGUSTINE: 

Born. Dec. 26, 1893, Everett, Mass.; enl. Dec. 15, 1917. Served with 311 Supply Co., 
Q. M.C., at Camp Johnston, Fla. Sailed from Newport News June 6, 1918; returned, land- 
ing at Charleston, S. C, July 5, 1919. Hon. dis., July 16, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 2 Orchard St., Andover, Mass. 

BONITATIBUS, LIBORIO: 

Born May 28, 1897; enl. Sept. 3, 1918. Hon. dis., Sept. 5, 1918, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 9 High St., Andover, Mass. 

BORNEMAN, MERLE: 

Born. Lewiston, Me.; enl. Dec. 13, 1917; assigned to Coast Artillery at Fort Andrews; 28th 
Reg. Coast Artillery. Hon. dis. Dec, 13, 1918. 
Present address — Prospect Hill Road, Andover, Mass. 

BORNEMAN, ROBERT ARDELL: 

Born, June 13, 1890, Lawrence, Mass.; enl. June 15, 1918. Volunteered for special training 
on motor work at Newtonville, Mass., on June 15, 1918, with Newton Technical Training 
Detachment. Transferred on Aug. 15 to Camp Jos. E. Johnston, Jacksonville, Fla. Trans- 
ferred twice to different Motor Truck Cos. between Aug. 15 and Sept. 1st. Entered Officers' 
Training School Sept. 1st., assigned to Student Co. No. 6. Recommended for Commission 
as 1st Lieut., Oct. 26. Held up in Washington on account of Armistice proceedings. Re- 
ceived Commission as 2nd Lt. in Reserve Corps, Dec. 2, 1918. Hon. dis., Dec. 3, 1918, 
Camp Jos. E. Johnston, Jacksonville, Fla. 

Present address — Los Angeles, Calif. Home address — No. 2 Prospect Hill Road, An- 
dover, Mass. 

BOUCHER, ARTHUR JOSEPH: 

Born, Jan. 19, 1898, Manchester, N. H.; enl. Nov. 9, 1918. Hon. dis.. Camp Lee, Va., Nov. 

14, 1918. 

Present address — 25 Brechin Terrace, Andover, Mass. 



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BOWMAN, CHARLES WILLIAM: 

Born, June 8, 1895, Andover, Mass.; enl. April 16, 1917. Priv. 1st cl. Battery F, 102nd F. A.. 
26th Div. Left U. S., Sept. 23, 1917. Engaged in battles of Seicheprey, Second Battle of 
Marne, St. Mihiel, Argonne-Meuse. Wounded May 30, 1917, at Mandres. Returned to 
U. S., Apr. 9, 1919. Hon. dis., Apr. 29, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 66 Park Street, Andover, Mass. 

BOWMAN, ROY LEO: 

Born July 15, 1900, Andover, Mass.; enl. Oct. 1, 1918. Served with Students' Army training 
boys at Villanova College, Villanova, Pa. Hon. dis., Dec. 11, 1918, Villanova College, 
Villanova, Pa. 
Present address — 66 Park Street, Andover, Mass. 

BOYNTON, KELLOGG: 

Born, Nov. 12, 1885, at Keeseville, N. Y.; entered the service as 1st Lieutenant — Field Ar- 
tillery, May 27, 1917; promoted to Captain, Field Artillery, May 12, 1918. Served overseas 
from April 26, 1918 to Oct. 28, 1919 in 114th F. A., 30th Division and 10th F. A., 3rd Divi- 
sion. Engaged in the Aisne-Marne Offensive, July 16, 1918, St. Mihiel Offensive, Sept. 12, 
1918, and Argonne-Meuse Offensive, Sept. 26, 1918. Hon. dis., with the rank of Captain 
at Camp Dix, N. J. Oct. 29, 1919. 
Present address — Hidden Road, Andover, Mass. 

BRADISH, ANDREW J. : 

Enl., 1918, Inf., Camp Devens; hon. dis., 1919. 

BRENNAN, JOHN J.: 

Born, June 3, 1897, Paterson, N. J.; enl. June 27, 1918. Co. L., 6th Bn., Camp Dix, N. J.; 
Co. K., 42nd U. S. Infantry, Camp Devens; 4th Inf. Recruit Co., Fort Slocum, N. Y. Hon. 
dis., Jan. 5, 1919, Fort Slocum, N. Y. 
Present Address — 44 Stevens St., Andover, Mass. 

BROOKS, ALDEN: 

Formerly of Andover, but of recent years resident in France; enl. 1917 as pupil in French 
Art. School, Fontainebleau; in Nov. made aspirant, 83rd Reg't., 67th Bat., Heavy Art.; 
pro. 1918 to be Sous-Lieutenant, 3rd Group, 81st Reg't R. A. L.; awarded Croix de Guerre, 
with silver star. Hon. dis., 1919. 

BROWN, GEORGE G.: 

Inducted Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — Center St., Ballardvale, Mass. 

BROWN, SHARON OSBORNE: 

Born, Mar. 10, 1891, Calais, Maine; enl. July 24, 1918. With 24th Co., 151st Depot Bri- 
gade, Camp Devens, until Aug. 10, 1918; Headquarters Troop, 12th Div., Camp Devens, 
from Aug. 11, 1918 to Jan. 31, 1919. Made Sgt. Hd'qtrs. Troop, Aug. 24, 1918. Hon. dis., 
Camp Devens, Jan. 31, 1919. 
Present address — 406 De Graff Bldg., Colorado Springs, Colo. 

BRUCE, GEORGE RALPH: 

Born Aug. 6, 1899, Ballardvale, Mass.; enl. Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918, Camp 

Lee, Va. 

Present address — Clark Road, Ballardvale, Mass. 




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BRYANT, GRACE (WOODBURN): 

Born, May 17, 1887, Chelsea, Mass.; enl., Sept. 28, 1917, as Red Cross Nurse; at Base Hos- 
pital, Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C, Oct. 1, 1917-May 17, 1918; sailed, June 11, 1918, for 
France; at contagious hospital, Toul, France, until April, 1919; Hon. dis., New York City, 
June 15, 1919. 
Present address — Court Street, Maryville, Tennessee. 

BUCHAN, CHARLES EDWARD: 

Born, Aug. 6, 1900, Andover, Mass.; enl. Apr. 7, 1917, Seaman, 1st cl. Released on inac- 
tive duty, Jan. 9, 1919, Boston, Mass. 
Present address — 81 Central St., Andover, Mass. 

BUCHAN, WILLIAM ANGUS: 

Born, July 1, 1896, Andover, Mass.; enl. Aug. 25, 1917, as 2nd Cl. Petty Officer. Served 
with U. S. Mine Squadron No. 1, Atlantic Fleet from Apr. 1, '18 to Jan. 1, '19. Engaged in 
Mining the North Sea, May 11, '18 to Nov. 11, '18. Served in Transport Service from 
Apr. 1, '19 to July 17, '19 on the U. S. S. Housatonic. The U. S. S. Housatonic made four 
trips, laying a mine barrage from Norway to Scotland, laying 9000 mines of the 56,000 laid 
by the U. S. Navy. Hon. dis., July 22, 1919, Boston, Mass. 
Present address — Elm Court, Andover, Mass. 

BUCKLEY, LIONEL F.: 

Born, Lawrence, Mass.; enl. Feb. 25, 1918; assigned to 6th Co., D. B. at Camp Devens; 
transferred to Battery C, 77th Division; served with A. E. F. 1 year; sailed from Hoboken 
Apr. 26, 1918; arrived Brest, May 4, 1918. Sailed from Brest April 29, 1919; arrived Hobo- 
ken May 7, 1919. In the following battles and campaigns — • Baccarat Sector, Chiteau- 
Thierry, Argonne-Meuse. Hon. dis.. May 10, 1919, 
Present address — Chester St., Andover, Mass. 

BURNETT, WILLIAM LEWIS: 

Born, Apr. 30, 1890, Altona, N. Y.; enl. Dec. 15, 1917, as Priv., 1st cl. First served with 
318th Eng. at Vancouver, Wash. Transferred to 31st Eng. at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., and 
embarked for France June 7, 1918, arriving there June 19th. Left France July 11, 1919, 
arriving in U. S., July 27, 1919. Hon. dis., Aug. 1, 1918, Camp Devens. 
Present address — Altona, N. Y. 

BUSHNELL, ROBERT TYNG: 

Born, July 9, 1896, New York City; enl. Jan. 3, 1918 as Priv. 1st cl.. Inf., Regular Army. 
Camp Upton, N. Y., Jan. to Apr., 1st Co. O. T. S. Camp Gordon, Ga., Apr. to June, 6th 
Co., 1st Replacement Regt. Camp Hancock, Ga., Machine Gun Center, Apr. to Dec. 
Made Sgt. Apr. 1, '18; 2nd Lt., Inf., June 1. Hon. dis., Dec. 18, 1918 — Camp Hancock, as 
Instructor, Machine Gunnery. 
Present address — Washington St., Newton, Mass. 

BUSS, JAMES HENRY: 

Born, April 1, 1899, Killeleagh, County Down, Ireland; enl. April 16, 1917, with Bat. B, 
2nd Mass. F. A. Battery was changed from Bat. B to Bat. F., 102nd U. S. F. A. Engaged 
in battles of Seicheprey, Xivray, Second Battle of the Marne, St. Mihiel advance, Argonne, 
andMeuse. Promoted to First Class Private, Dec, 1917. Gassed at Verdun, Nov. 2, 1918. 
Remained in action until recovered. Hon. dis., Apr. 29, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 17 Barnard Street, Andover, Mass. 



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BYRNE, JOHN JOSEPH: 

Born, May 3, 1899, Dublin, Ireland; enl. Mar. 4, 1918; assigned to 21st Co. at Fort 
Strong; transferred from 21st to 18th Co., to 73rd Reg. R. R. Artillery, to 21st again, 
and to 65th Regiment, Battery F. ,32nd Brig. Engaged in battle of Pont k Mousson; 
served with A. E. F. four months; sailed from Hoboken, Sept. 23, 1918, arriving at St. 
Nazaire, Oct. 6; sailed from Brest, Jan. 15, 1919, arriving at Philadelphia, Jan. 30. Hon. 
dis., April 14, 1919, Camp Dix, New York. 
Present address — 44 Morton St., Andover, Mass. 

BYRNE, MICHAEL JOSEPH: 

Born, March 6, 1897, Dublin, Ireland; enl. Aug. 27, 1918; with Inf. 1 month; 5 months with 
13th Reg., 5th Brigade Art.; served 1 month as truck driver; hon. dis. from Camp Jackson, 
So. Carolina, March 12, 1919. 
Present address — 44 Morton St., Andover, Mass. 

BYRNES, JAMES JOSEPH: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — 96 Poor St., Andover, Mass. 

BYRNES, MICHAEL FRANCIS: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918, 
Present address — 96 Poor St., Andover, Mass. 

CAFARTOROS, NICHOLAS A.: 

Enlisted July 21, 1918, Co. I, 73rd Infantry, 12th Division. Hon. dis., Jan. 29, 1919, Camp 

Devens. 

Present address, 42 Main St., Andover, Mass. 

CAIRNIE, HENRY: 

Born, Dundee, Scotland, Jan. 21, 1894; enl. Oct. 2, 1916, 1st Section, Canadian F. A.; 
overseas; hon. dis.. May 21, 1919. 
Present address — Andover, Mass. 

CALDWELL, JAMES: 

Born, Dec. 8, 1892, Kilmarnock, Scotland; enl. Oct. 4, 1917, 304th Ambulance Co. Served 
in France from June, 1918 to Dec, 1918. Hon. dis., Dec. 18, 1918, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 266 Bailey St., Lawrence, Mass. 

CALLAHAN, EDWARD: 

Born in Ireland; enl. May 25, 1918; assigned to Depot Brigade, Camp Upton, L. I. Trans- 
ferred to Camp Johnston, Florida, 320th Field Re-Mount. Served with A. E. F. 1 1 months; 
sailed from Hoboken, Sept. 7, 1918, arriving Brest, Sept. 21, 1918; sailed from Bordeaux, 
June 5, 1919, arriving at Hoboken, June 19, 1919. Hon. dis., June 26, 1919. 
Present address — 40 Red Spring Rd., Andover, Mass. 

CAMPBELL, DAVID: 

Born, 1892, Brechin, Scotland; enl., Canadians, July, 1917; served in transport work ; trans- 
ferred to duty in Siberia; hon. dis., 1919. 

CAMPBELL, JOHN: 

Born Oct. 31, 1897, Dundee, Scotland; enl. June 11, 1917; assigned to 9th Mass. Infantry 
at Framingham, Mass. ; transferred to Co. F, 101st Infantry, Framingham. Served with A. 
E. F. 16 months, 11 days. Sailed from Hoboken, Sept. 6, 1917, arriving at St. Nazaire 



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Sept. 21; sailed from St. Nazaire, Dec. 26, 1918, arriving at Newport News Jan. 3, 1919. 
In the following battles and campaigns: Chemin Des Dames, Specery, Chateau-Thierry, 
St. Mihiel, Argonne Forest, Verdun, Meuse. Was cited for bravery on July 26, 1918. 
Wounded Oct. 23, 1918, in the battle of Argonne Forest. Hon. dis., March 6, 1919. 
Present address — 4 Brechin Terrace, Andover, Mass. 

CANNON, GORDON RODERICK: 

Born, Andover, Mass.; enl. Nov. 11, 1918; ass. to O. T. S., Camp Fremont; hon. dis., Nov. 

14, 1918. 

Present address — Andover, Mass. 

CANTY, TIMOTHY: 

Enl., 1918, Inf., Camp Devens; as. 6th Co., 2d Bn., Depot Brigade; hon. dis., 1919. 

CARGILL, ROBERT WEBSTER: 

Born, Apr. 3, 1887; enl. Aug. 9, 1917, with the Canadian Army, in the 8th Field Ambulance. 
Nine months in Hospital work in St. John, N. B. Transferred to the Canadian Engineers 
May 20th and sailed for England, June 13th, 1918. Left with reinforcements to the 3rd 
Tunneling Co. Worked at Cappel, Boileau, Wineraux, Steenaveck, Penenchies, Wam- 
brechies, Marquette, Roubaix, Lille, Pecq, and Tourcoing. Hon. dis., Apr. 14, 1919, Peel 
St. Barracks, Montreal. 
Present address — 34 Stevens St., Andover, Mass. 

CARMICHAEL, GEORGE BRODIE: 

87th Div., Co. B., Engineers; hon. dis., 1919. 
Present address — 3 Ferndale Ave., Andover, Mass. 

CARMICHAEL, LESLIE ROBERT: 

Born, Andover, Mass. ; enl. in U. S. Navy May 25, 1916, for four years; assigned to Newport, 
R.I. Was on U.S.S.5ea«/c, sailing between New York and France. Released March 5, 1919. 
Present address — Haverhill St., Andover, Mass. 

CARRIE, FRANK LESLIE: 

Born, June 22, 1896, Andover, Mass.; enl. Dec. 15, 1917 with 55th C.A.C., Hd'qtrs Co., 
Boston Harbor. In 2nd Battle of Marne, Operations on Vesle, Meuse-Argonne, defensive 
sector. Promoted to rank of Wagoner, in July, 1918. Hon. dis., Jan., 1919, Fort Wright, 
N. Y. 
Present address — 20 Montrose St., Somerville, Mass. 

CARROLL, WILLIAM JOSEPH: 

Born, Lowell, Mass. ; enl. June 23, 1918; assigned to Casual Co. at Vancouver, Wash. Trans- 
ferred to 15th Spruce Squadron, 2nd Prov. Regiment, Vancouver, Wash. Hon. dis., Feb. 
5, 1919. 
Present address — 91 No. Main St., Andover, Mass. 

CARSE, JOHN: 

Born, Belfast, Ireland; reported Nov. 9, 1918;assignedtoCampLee. Hon.dis.Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — 66 Main St., Andover, Mass. 

CARTER, HERBERT PAUL: 

Born, Dec. 1, 1894, West Pembroke, Maine; enl., June 22, 1918, 2nd Co., 1st Bn. Depot 
Brig. Transferred Nov. 6, 1918, to 247th Ambulance Co., 12th Division, Promoted to 1st 
CI. Priv. in July, 1918. Hon. dis., Jan. 27, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — Lowell St., Andover, Mass. 



162 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

CARTER, JAMES ROSE: 

Born, Mar. 12, 1898, Andover, Mass.; enl. Oct. 15, 1918 as C. Q. M. A., in Naval Aviation. 
Hon. dis., Nov. 28, 1918, Cambridge, Mass. 
Present address — High Plain Road, Andover, Mass. 

CARTER, THOMAS EDWARD: 

Attended Officers' Training School at Camp Upton, Yaphank, L. I.; qualified as 2nd Lt. but 
enl. as Pri. rather than wait for commission, with Co. G, 208th Inf., early in 1918; transferred 
to Co. L, 9th Inf. and com. as 2nd Lt.; was awarded the Croix de Guerre with palm by 
the French; received American Distinguished Service Medal; cited for bravery, Nov. 20, 
1918, in action near Tuiliere Farm on Nov. 4; went over the top three times in seven days; 
in charge of company owing to death of all other officers; killed by machine gun fire while 
leading his men at La Tuiliere Ferme, on Nov. 4, 1918. 

CASHAN, PETER JAMES: 

30SthF. A. 77thDiv.; hon. dis., 1919. 

Present address — 11 Bartlett St., Andover, Mass. 

CASHAN, WM. F.: 

Born, Maynard, Mass.; reported June 27, 1918; assigned to Co. B, 31st Battalion, at Camp 
Dix, N. J. Transferred to Ft. Ethan Allen, Vt. Hon. dis., Nov. 4, 1918. 
Present address — 11 Bartlet St., Andover, Mass. 



CATES, HAROLD STEWARD: 

Born,Oct.l7,1894,Andover,Mass.;enl.Aug.21,1917, with B. Co.,302 M. G. B., 76th Div., 
from Aug., 1917 to July, 1918, at Camp Devens, and from July. 1918 to Nov., 1918 at Lun- 
ery, France. With Co. B, 147 M. G. B., 41st Div., from Nov., 1918to Mar., 1919. Attended 
A. E. F. University at Beaune, France, from Mar. 6, 1919 to June 15th, 1919, when he sailed 
for U. S. with Casual Company. Made Corporal on Nov. 15, 1917; made Sgt. on Aug. 15, 
1918. Hon. dis., July 10, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 279 No. Main St., Andover, Mass. 



CATES, HOWARD LINCOLN: 

Born, Jan. 6, 1896, Andover, Mass.; enl. Oct. 4, 1917, as Corp., Camp Devens, 18th Co., 
5th Bn., Depot Brigade from Oct., 1917 to Jan., 1918. Transferred to Vet.Dept. No. 1, 
Jan. 2, 1918. Sailed for France Apr. 16, 1918 with Vet. Hosp. No. 1. Stationed at Neuilly- 
le-Veque, Haute Marne, France. Attacked by subs, on the way over. Hon. dis., June 
29, 1919. 
Present Address — R. F. D. No. 1, Box 69, Lowell, Mass. 

CAVAN, JAMES: 

Born, Dundee, Scotland; enl., 1915, British Army; in many battles on western front; 
killed, April 19, 1917. 

CHASE, ABBOTT: 

Born, Dec. 16, 1898, Andover, Mass.; enl. Oct. 11, 1918, S. A. T. C, Lowell Textile School, 
Lowell, Mass. Hon. dis., Dec. 11, 1918, Lowell, Mass. 
Present address — 94 Summer St., Andover, Mass. 



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CHEEVER, BROOKS: 

Born, Andover, Mass.; enl. April 27, 1917; assigned to Battery B, 3rd Field Artillery, at Fort 
Sam Houston, Texas, as stable sergeant; sailed from N. Y., July 14, 1918, arriving in Liver- 
pool, July 26, 1918; sailed from Brest, June 20, 1919, arriving in Boston, June 30, 1919. 
Hon. dis., July 3, 1919. 
Present address — Bancroft Road, Andover, Mass. 

CHEEVER, FREDERICK EATON: 

Born, June 18, 1888, Andover, Mass.; enl. Sept. 25, 1918, Co. 12, 153d Bn., Depot Brigade, 
Supply Dept., Camp Dix, N. J. Transferred to 2nd Bn., Medical Corps. Hon. dis., Mar. 3, 
1919, Camp Dix. 
Present address — Bancroft Road, Andover, Mass. 

CHEEVER, HERBERT F. : 

Enl., April, 1917 in Bat. C, 101st F. A.; sailed overseas, Sept., 1917; in all battles of 26th 
Div.; returned April, 1919; hon. dis., April 29, 1919. 
Present address — Andover, Mass. 

CHEEVER, LYMAN FLOYD: 

Born, May 25, 1897, Andover, Mass.; enl. Aug. 25, 1918, Bn. E, 3rd Reg. F. A. — Camp 
Jackson, S. C, Aug. 25 to Sept. 30; Camp Stewart, Va., Sept. 30 to Oct. 6. Stationed at La 
Cormeau, France from Nov. 16, '18 to Feb. 1, '19; at Brest until Nov. 14; at Mensnes, Feb. 
3, '19 to Feb. 13, '19; at St. Aignan, Feb. 13, to June 12; at Gievres, June 12 to July 10; 
Paris, July 10 to Sept. 20. Made Sgt. May 31, '19. Made Sgt., 1st CI., July 31, 1919. Hon. 
dis., Sept. 20, 1919, Paris, France. Returned to U. S. as civilian, Feb. 16, 1920. 

CHEEVER, PHILIP STANLEY: 

Born, Aug. 7, 1892, Andover, Mass.; enl. Sept. 21, 1917; with Co. B, 302nd M. G. B., 76th 
Div., Camp Devens, Sept. 21, 1917 to July 8, 1918. Sailed for France July 8, 1918. With 
St. Aignan Cas. Co. No. 995, Nov. 7, 1918 to Mar. 12, 1919; Cas. Co. No. 256, Mar. 12 to 
Mar. 25, 1919. Made Priv. 1st CI., Sept. 1, 1918. Hon. dis.. Mar. 25, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 68 Burnside Ave., Medford, Mass. 

CHENEY, PAUL MELVILLE: 

Born, Apr. 14, 1896, Clinton, Mass.; enl. June 1, 1917, as Priv. 1st CI. Hd'qtrs. Co. 102nd 
F. A., 26th Div., June 1, 1917 to Aug. 23, 1918. Aug. 24, 1918 to Apr. 10, 1919, with 55th 
Brig. Hd'qtrs., F. A., 30th Div. In the following battles: — Major operations — St. Mihiel 
Offensive; Meuse-Argonne Offensive: — Minor operations — Chemin des Dames Sector; 
Toul Sector ; Toul sector, Seicheprey Offensive ; Toul sector, Xivray Defensive ; Woevre Sector. 
Gassed, Apr. 22, 1918, Seicheprey Battle. Hon. dis., Apr. 10, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address, 39 Maple Ave., Andover, Mass. 

CHEYNE, GEORGE C: 

Born, June 7, 1893, Boston, Mass.; enl. Nov. 23, 1917, with 6th F. A. Transferred to Tank 
Corps, (in France), Apr. 4, 1918. Co. C, 345 Bn., 306 Brig. Served at St. Mihiel and Ar- 
gonne. Made Corp., Oct. 17, 1918. Hon. dis., Apr. 10, 1919, Camp Deven? 
Present address — 185 No. Main St., Andover, Mass. 

CHIPMAN, HOWARD A.: 

156th Depot Brigade, Camp Jackson, S. C, Sept. 1, 1918 to Feb. 12, 1919. Hon. dis., Aug. 

11, 1919, Camp Devens. 

Present address — Shawsheen Village, Andover, Mass. 



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CHIRAS, GEORGE ERNEST: 

Born, Apr. 23, 1897, Andover, Mass.; enl. Apr., 1914, at Boston, as apprentice seaman. 
Served for three years and re-enlisted. Served on the Nebraska, doing convoy duty and 
special duty in So. American waters. Transferred Aug. 5, 1918, to the destroyer flotilla. 
Served on the destroyer Thacher, till transferred to Naval Hosp. on account of injuries 
received on board. May 26, 1919. Later sent to duty at U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, 
Md., from which station he was hon. dis., Nov. 3, 1919. On Aug. 23, 1920, re-enlisted a 
second time and was detailed to U. S. Submarine T. 2, and two months later was transferred 
to U. S. Submarine Base, New London, Conn., where he is still in the service. Worked 
his way through eight promotions and is now Chief Boatswains Mate, which rating he 
held during the war. 
Present home address — R. F. D. No. 1, No. Wilmington, Mass. 

CHRISTIE, ROBERT: 

Born, Nov. 12, 1897, Arbroath, Scotland; enl. March 1, 1918; assigned to Quartermasters 
Corps at FortSlocum, N. Y. Transferred to 105th Air Squadron, Vancouver, Wash- 
ington. Pro. Corp'l. Hon. dis., Feb. 5, 1919. 
Present address — 6 Brechin Terrace, Andover, Mass. 

CHURCH, HOWARD WILLIAM: 

Com., Aug., 1918, as 1st Lt.. Intel. Div., A.E. F.; with Army of Occupation; hon. dis., 1920. 
Present address — Andover, Mass. 

CHURCHILL, MARLBOROUGH: 

Born, Aug. 11, 1878, Andover, Mass.; enl. Sept. 17, 1901 (was in regular service at the time 
of declaration of war), Capt. F. A. when war was declared. Served on General Staff, A. E. F. 
(Intelligence Section) June to July, 1917; Air Service, A. E. F. July 1917 to Jan. 1918; 
Army Artillery, 1st Army, A. E. F. Jan. to May 19, 1918. Served in France before our 
declaration of war as Military Observer with French Armies in the Field. Sailed Jan. 5, 
1916. Remained on that duty until arrival of Gen'l. Pershing, June 13, 1917. Served in 
France with A. E. F. June 13, 1917 to May 19, 1918. Served as member of American Com- 
mission to Negotiate Peace. Sailed Dec. 4, 1918, returned Mar. 20, 1919. Made 1st Lt. 
inRegularArmyJan. 25, 1907; Capt., Apr. 13, 1911; Major, May 15, 1917. Made Lt. CoL 
in Emergency Army Aug. 5, 1917; Colonel, June 12, 1918; Brig. Gen'l., Aug. 8, 1918. Acting 
Chief of Staff, Army Artillery, 1st Army, Feb. to May 20, 1918. Chief, Military Intelli- 
gence Branch, Gen. Staff, War Dep't., June 1 to Aug., '18. Assistant Chief of Staff and Di- 
rector of Military Intelligence, War Dep't., Aug. '18, to date. Received American Distin- 
guished Service Medal; Officer of Legion of Honor (France); Companion of the Bath 
(England); Commander, Order of the Crown of Italy; Commander, Order of Leopold 
(Belgium). Hon. dis. from emergency grade of Brig. Gen'l., June 30, 1920. Remained in 
RegularArmy with permanent grade of Major of Field Artillery. Present address — • c-o 
The Adjutant General of the Army, Washington, D. C. 

CLARKE, HENRY BRADFORD: 

Born, Feb. 15, 1897, Wellesley Hills, Mass.; enl. Apr. 28, 1918, as Seaman, 2nd CI., Radio 
School Receiving Barracks, Newport, R. I., Apr. 28, 1918 to Nov. 15, 1918; Harvard Radio 
School, Nov. 15, to Dec. 18, 1918. Hon. dis., Dec. 18, 1918, Harvard Radio School. 
Present address — 234 Main St., Andover, Mass. 

CLARKE, WESLEY J.: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — Tewksbury St., Ballardvale, Mass. 



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CLEMONS, ROBERT SCHILLER: 

Born, Feb. 18, 1871, Ballardvale, Mass.; enl. Apr. 6, 1917 as Major, Corps of Engrs. Ord- 
nance, Frankford Arsenal, Apr. to Sept., '17; Engineers, Sept., 1917 to date. Commanded 
506th Engrs. , Nov. 1 , ' 1 7 to J une 1 , ' 19. Asst. Dir. Field Artillery School Camp, La Courtine 
Aug. 28, '18 to Jan. 1, '19. Left U. S. Jan. 2, '18 for France, returned June, '19. Citation- 
King of Montenegro, "Danilb 1st." Still in service, — at present Asst. Dept. Engr., 
Southern Dept. 
Present address — Manila, P. L 

CLEMONS, WILLIAM A.: 

Enl., June 27, 1918; hon. dis., July 12, 1918, S. C. D., Camp Dix, New Jersey. 

COAXES, ALFRED: 

Born, Dec. 21, 1897, Lawrence, Mass.; enl. Apr. 12, 1917 as Seaman, 2ndcl., Naval Reserve. 
Training ship, Boston, Apr. 12, '17 to June 2, '17. Transferred to U. S. S. Georgia. Pa- 
trolled submarine zone and held target practice until Jan. 3, '18. At Portsmouth, Va. and 
Chelsea hospitals, land duty, and signal instructor in Machias, Maine until Nov., '18. 
Ass't. gas engine man on U. S. S. Edithena, Boston Harbor, until Jan. 9, '19. Promoted 
to Machinist Mate, 2nd cl., June 11, 1918. Hon. dis., Jan. 9, 1919, Boston, Mass. 
Present address — 23 Lyndale Ave., Methuen, Mass. 

COATES, ARTHUR HUDSON: 

Born, Plymouth, Mass., Dec. 28, 1896; enl., Oct. 15, 1917, as Seaman, U. S. N. R. F., U. S. 
S. Nansemond, an army transport; pro. to Q. M., 3d Cl. and Q. M., 2d cl.; made sev- 
eral trips overseas on convoy work; hon. dis., Feb. 20, 1919, Hoboken, N.J. 
Present address — Somerville, Mass. 

COATES, JAMES EDWARD: 

Born, Sept. 23, 1895, Plymouth, Mass.; enl. July 26, 1917. Fort Slocum, July 26 to Sept. 

1, 1917; Bakery Co. No. 7, 4th Div., Sept. 1, '17 to July, 1918; Bakery Co. No. 7, 1st Div., 

July, 1918 to Sept., 1919. Sailed for France May 22, '18, returned Sept. 2, 1919. Served in 

France and Germany. Made Sgt. June 1, 1919. Hon. dis., Sept. 27, 1919, Camp Meade. 

Md. 

Present address — Y. M. C. A., New Bedford, Mass. 

COHAN, MICHAEL JOSEPH: 

Born, Mar. 19, 1899, Lowell, Mass.; enl. Dec. 5, 1917, as Bugler. Battery C, 55th Art., C. A. 
C. Sailed overseas. Mar. 26, 1918, returned Nov. 24, 1918, as a casual. Severely wounded 
in action, Aug. 17, '18. Served only in Chateau Thierry Sector. Had right thigh crushed by 
155 mm 6" field rifle. Strapped to a bed eleven weeks, then evacuated to Hoboken. Hon. 
dis., Feb. 6, 1919, Camp Devens Casualty Station. 
Present address — 10 Loomis Street, Montpelier, Vermont. 

COLBATH, HARRY WILBUR: 

Born, April 2, 1893, Billerica, Mass.; enl., April 29, 1918; served with 3rd Co., 1st Tr. 
B'n., 151st Depot Brigade, fromApril 29 to May 29, 1918; with Battery E, 303rd F. A., from 
May 29, to May 1, 1919; Toul Sector, Marcheville Offensive, Nov. 4 to Nov. 9; Toul Sec- 
tor— Pintheville, Butgueville, Bois-de-Harville Offensive, Nov. 10, 11, 1918; left U. S. for 
foreign service, July 16, 1918; returned, April 26, 1919; appointed Mech., Oct., 16, 1918; 
appointed Corporal, March 15, 1919; hon. dis. from Camp Devens, Mass., May 1, 1919. 
Present address — Andover St., Ballardvale, Mass. 

COLBATH, HOWARD: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — Andover St., Ballardvale, Mass. 



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COLE, ARTHUR WHITTIER: 

Born Jan. 8, 1895, Andover, Mass.; enl. Apr. 16, 1917 at Lowell. Calledintoservice July 25, 

1917. Served with Battery F, 102nd F. A. Arrived in France, Oct. 5, 1917. Returned to 
U. S. A., Apr. 10, 1919. In battles of Seicheprey, Xivray, Second battle of Marne, St. 
Mihiel, and Argonne-Meuse. Gassed July 14, 1918, near Chateau Thierry. Gassed Oct. 26, 

1918, near Verdun. Hon. dis., Apr. 29, 1920, Camp Devens. 
Present address — High St., Andover, Mass. 

COLEMAN, JOHN P.: 

Enl. April 8, 1918 in Canadian Engineers; hon. dis., Aug. 26, 1919. 
Present address — 64 Essex St., Andover, Mass. 

COLLINS, GEORGE McINTOSH: 

Born June 3, 1892, Andover, Mass.; enl. April 16, 1917. Battery F, 102nd F. A., 26th Div. 
In battles of Seicheprey, Xivray, Second Battle of Marne, St. Mihiel, and Argonne-Meuse. 
Made Corp., Aug. 18, 1917; Sgt., May 6, 1918. Hon. dis., Apr. 29, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 13 Bartlet St., Andover, Mass. 

COLLINS, JOHN EVERETT: 

Born Apr. 27, 1894, Andover, Mass.; enl. April 16, 1917. Entered Federal Service, Aug. 22, 
1917. Battery F, 102nd F. A., 26th Div. In battles of Seicheprey, Xivray, Second Battle of 
Marne, St. Mihiel, and Argonne-Meuse. Hon. dis.. Camp Devens, Apr. 29, 1919. 
Present address — Medford, Mass. 

COMBER, JOSEPH: 

Born, Dec. 24, 1884, Ballardvale, Mass.; enl. Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14,1918, 

Camp Lee, Va. 

Present address — Ballardvale, Mass. 

CONKEY, HOWARD NELSON: 

Born, Nov. 25, 1896 in Hardwick, Mass.; enl., Dec. 26, 1917 as Apprentice Seaman in U. S. 
Navy; stationed at Newport, R. I. from Jan. 18, 1918-April 1, 1918; Harvard Radio School 
from April 1,-Aug. 5, 1918; Cape Hatteras Compass Station from Sept. 29-May 20, 1919; 
on board Destroyer 5/iara(ienfromJune,1919-Dec. 11, 1919;promoted to 2nd Class Seaman 
April 1, 1918;3rdcl. radio operator Aug. 4, 1918; 2nd cl. operator Aug. 10, 1919; hon. dis., 
in Norfolk, Va. from U. S. S. Oklahoma, Dec. 11, 1919. 
Present address — Porter Road, Andover, Mass. 

CONNOLLY, JAMES F.: 

Inducted Sept. 17, 1917; assigned to Med. Dept., Camp Devens Base Hospital ; hon. dis., 

Aug. 10, 1919. 

Present address — 3 Elm St., Andover, Mass. 

CONROY, AUGUSTINE E.: 

Born Oct. 12, 1891, Lawrence, Mass.; enl. Sept. 21, 1917. B Co., 302 M. G. B., Camp 
Devens, Sept., 1917 to July, 1918; Lunery, France, July, 1918-Oct., 1918; Army Candidates 
School, Fort de la Bonelle, Longres, Nov., 1918-Jan., 1919; Pontanezen, Brest, May, 1919- 
Sept., 1919. Returned, Oct., 1919. Made Corp., Nov., 1917; Sgt., July, 1918; 2nd Lt. Inf., 
Apr., 1919; Adjt. M. P.'s Pontanezen, July, 1919. Hon. dis., Oct. 14, 1919, Camp Dix, N. J., 
as 2nd Lt., Inf. 
Present address — 29 Essex St., Andover, Mass. 



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CONROY, RAYMOND SARSFIELD: 

Born, June 22, 1888, Lawrence, Mass. Enl. Aug. 25, 1917, as cand., 8th Co., 16th Pro. 
Reg't., Presidio; as. Nov. 14, as priv., 1st cl., S. E. R. C, A. S., Seattle; volunteered for 
draft Oct. 14, 1918, Jefferson Barracks; hon. dis., Oct. 14, 1918. 

CONVERSE, JOHN KENDRICK: 

Born, May 18, 1898, Medford, Mass. ; enl. May 18, 1917. Bat. F., 102nd F. A. from May 18, 
'17 to Nov. 29, '17. Artillery Training School, Saumur, France, Dec. 1, '17-Mar. 17, 'is' 
Instructor at La Courtine, Mar. 17-Apr. 2; Co. C, 301st U. S. Heavy Tank Corps, Apr. 6, '18 
to Mar. 1, '19. Sailed for France Sept. 23, '17, returning Mar. 18, '19. Took part in Battle 
of Somme, Aug. 15-Nov. 11, '18 on western front, with Tank Corps. Made Corp., Aug. 
2, 1917; Sgt., Mar. 21, '18. Gassed. Hon. dis.. Mar. 6, '19, at St. Aignan, France. ' 
Present address — Wildwood Road, Andover, Mass. 

CROALL, DAVID C. S.: 

Born, Arbroath, Scotland; enl., April 15, in 5th Black Watch; took part in all big battles in 
the early part of the war; invalided home with trench feet; returned to fighting line and was 
killed, April 29, 1918; on firing line more than two and one-half years. 

CROCKETT, FRANCIS FLINT: 

Born, July 15, 1885, Andover, Mass.; enl. Aug. 18, 1917, as Priv., 1st cl. With 21st F. A. 
from Sept. 5, '17 to Oct. 8, '17, Camp Slocum, N. Y. 6th F. A. from Oct. 8, '17 to Dec. 28,' 
'17, Fort Myers, Va. 150th F. A., Bat. D., 42nd, or Rainbow Division, Dec. 28, '17 to Man 
22, '18. In action 190 days out of 261. — Offensive, Luneville, Feb. 23, '18 to Mar. 22. '18; 
Offensive, Baccarat, Mar. 30, '18 to June 20, '18; Defensive, Champaign Marne, July 15, '18 
to July 18, '18; Offensive, Aisne Marne, July 22, '18 to July 31, '18; Offensive, St. Mihiel, 
Sept. 12, '18 to Sept. 18, '18; Offensive, Woevre, Sept. 17, '18 to Sept. 30, '18; Offensive' 
Meuse Argonne, Sept. 30, '18 to Nov. 11, '18. With Army of Occupation in Germany from 
Nov. 15, 1918 to Mar. 23, 1919. Hon. dis.. May 1, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — No. Main St., Andover, Mass. 

CRONIN, CORNELIUS JOSEPH: 

Born, Feb. 15, 1891; enl., April 28, 1917; reported June 8, 1917; U. S. A.; Aeronautical 
School, Mass. Inst, of Tech.; Hazelhurst Aviation Field, Mineola, L. I.; Mitchell Field, 
Garden City, L. I.; embarked from Hoboken Jan. 4, 1918; arrived Le Havre, France, Febl 
7,1918; American Rest Camp, Romsey, Eng.; Concentration Camp, St. Maxient, France; 
Issoudun Aviation Field, France; Bombing School, Clermont-Ferrand ;Toul Replacement 
Field; French Escadrille; Tours Aviation Field; 2nd Corps Aviation Field; Chatillon sur 
Seine; Army of Occupation, Sinzig-Weisenthurm; left Brest Sept. 3, 1919; hon. dis., from 
Garden City, L. I., Aug. 19, 1919, as 1st Lieutenant. 
Present address — Ballardvale, Mass. 

CRONIN, JEREMIAH JOSEPH: 

Born, 1897, Ballardvale, Mass.; enl. Sept. 3, 1918. In quarantine at Newport, R. I. for 
first 35 days on account of influenza epidemic. Then sent to Radio School to prepare for 
Harvard Radio but kept there as assistant until discharged. Hon. dis., Feb. 11, 1919, U. S. 
Naval Training Station, Newport, R. I. 
Present address — Ballardvale, Mass. 

CRONIN, JOHN M.: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — Center St., Ballardvale, Mass. 

CRONIN, WILLIAM JOHN: 

Born, Dec. 28, 1892, North Andover, Mass.; enl. at Boston. Reported for duty May 11, 
1917 at first officers' Training Camp at Plattsburg Barracks, N. Y. Cadet 3 mos. at Train-^ 



168 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

ing Camp. Commissioned 2nd Lt. F. A. Aug. 15, 1917, at close of camp. Sailed for France 
Sept. 22, 1917. Student at F. A. School, Saumur, France, from Oct. 1, to Dec. 31, 1917, 
under French. Assigned to 149th F. A. of the 42nd (Rainbow) Div. on Jan. 1, 1918. Joined 
at Coetquidan training camp on that date. Went to the Front with them Feb. 1, 1918, 
About 8 mos. at the Front, serving on defensive sectors, first near Luneville, one month; 
near Baccarat, 3 mos; took part in resisting drive on Paris by Germans in July, 1918, in 
Chateau Thierry offensive. Sent to hospital while on march to take part in St. Mihiel drive. 
Ill with pneumonia, due to gassing during Chateau Thierry drive, for two months, at Base 
Hosp. No. 7. Sent to Nice on the Riviera for one month convalescent leave. At Monte Carlo 
on Armistice Day. On Mar. 1, 1919 was one of 2000 officers and men sent to School in 
England. Spent four months studying law at the Inst, of Court, London, Eng. Sailed for 
home July 15 and landed in N. Y. July 29. Hon. dis., Aug. 15, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 30 Church St., New York City. (Home, 70 High St., Andover, Mass.) 

CRONIN, WILLIAM PATRICK: 

Enl., Oct., 1918, S. A. T. C, Villanova College, Villanova, Pa.; hon. dis., Dec, 1918. 
Present address — Ballardvale, Mass. 

CUMMINGS, ARTHUR H. : 

Enl. in U. S. Navy in 1904, from Andover, and has served continuously ever since. In 1914 
was warranted a Gunner in the Navy. At the outbreak of the World War was on the U. S. 
Seattle and convoyed the first troops to France in 1917, landing at Brest. Was in Paris on 
July 4, 1917. Made continuous trips with troops during the war. The U. S. S. Seattle was 
attacked by submarines on the first trip, but escaped without injury. The Seattle was Ad- 
miral Gleaves' flagship at the time. Made Ensign in Aug., 1917; commissioned Lt., J. G., 
Nov. 1917; Lt., Senior Grade, Sept. 1918. Has since been made Capt. and is at present in 
charge of a squadron of five destroyers stationed at Newport, R. I. 

CUNNINGHAM, FRANK ARTHUR: 

Born June 17, 1889, Andover, Mass.; enl. June 5, 1918, A. E. F., serving in Bat. C, 2ndF.A., 
at Camp Fremont, Cal., and at Fort Sill, Okla. Sailed for France Aug. 25, 1918, as No. 1 
Cannonier. Received shrapnel wound in right leg in battle of Belleau Woods. Detailed 
by sickness in Brest, France, after the Armistice was signed, then debarked to Hospital in 
N. Y. Hon. dis., Feb. 15, 1919, at Camp Grant, 111. 
Present address — 647 Washington St., Dorchester, Mass. 

CUNNINGHAM, THOMAS A.: 

Born, Feb. 6, 1894, Andover, Mass.; enl. Apr. 29, 1918, Co. F., 301st Inf., 76th Div., Camp 
Devens. Left N. Y. for England July 6, 1918. Arrived at Liverpool July 17 and left for 
France a week later. Transferred to 41st Div., Co. G, 163rd Inf., and later transferred to 
P, E. S. Pro. to Corp. Oct. 13, 1918. Hon. dis., Sept. 8, 1919, Camp Devens, Mass. 
Present address — 16 Durham St., So. Lawrence, Mass. 

CURRAN, MAURICE JOYCE: 

Born, Andover, Mass.; enl.. May 15, 1918, as priv., O. T. C; com. 2nd Lt., F. A., U. S.A., 
Aug. 31, 1918; hon. dis., Dec. 10, 1918. 
Present address — Andover, Mass. 

CURTIS, ALBERT EVERETT: 

Born, Aug. 19, 1898, Maiden, Mass. Enl. Oct. 30, 1918, U. S. N. R. F. Hon. dis., Jan. 23. 

1919, Newport, R. I. 

Present address — Dascomb Road, Ballardvale, Mass. 

CUSSAN, CORNELIUS: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — 94 North Main St., Andover, Mass 



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CUTHILL, ERIC STEADMAN: 

Born, Nov. 18, 1898, Andover, Mass.; enl. Aug. 19, 1918 as Seaman, Merchant Marine, 
Coastwise service. Hon. dis., Dec. 1, 1918. 
Present address — 89 Ferry St., Lawrence, Mass. 

DAILLEY, THOMAS JOSEPH: 

Born, Dundee, Scotland; enl. April 15, 1918; reported May 10, 1918; assigned to Naval 
Reserve at Newport, R. I. Released Jan. 22, 1919. 
Present address — 73 Essex St., Andover, Mass. 

DALEY, EDWARD FRANCIS: 

Born, July 25, 1889, Ballardvale, Mass.; enl. Feb. 25, 1918. With Co. K, 58th Inf., 4th Div. 
and Co. D, 143rd Inf., 36th Div. In Second Battle of Marne. With Army of Occupation 
from Dec, 1918 to July 20, 1919. Wounded by machine gun bullet in left arm and received 
shrapnel wound in left thigh. Hon. dis., Aug. 10, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — Tewksbury St., Ballardvale, Mass. 

DALEY, JOSEPH JAMES: 

Born, Apr. 7, 1891, Andover, Mass.; enl. April 16, 1917 as 1st Sgt., with Bat. F., 102nd F. A. 
Left N. Y. Sept. 21, 1917, arrived home Apr. 12, 1919. Engagements — Seicheprey, Apr. 
20, 1918; Xivray, June 16, 1918; Second Battle of Marne, July 18, 1918; St. Mihiel, Sept. 
12, 1918; Argonne-Meuse, Oct. 12, 1918. Gassed, July 14, 1918. Hon. dis.., Apr. 29, 1919, 
Camp Devens. 
Present address — 14 Bartlet St., Andover, Mass. 

DALEY, THOMAS JOSEPH: 

Enl., U. S. N. R. F.; as. Training Station, Newport, R. I. 

DALEY, TIMOTHY F.: 

Born, Maiden, Mass.; Seaman U. S. Navy; enl. March 19, 1017; assigned to U. S. Vir- 
ginia at Boston. Hon. dis. June 10, 1919. 
Present address — 9 Brechin Terrace, Andover, Mass. 

DALTON, HARRY C: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — 45 Whittier St., Andover, Mass. 

DALY, FREDERICK JOSEPH: 

Went overseas Apr. 28, 1917, with Andover Ambulance Unit; enl. Oct. 1, 1917, as priv., 
Q. M. C, U. S. A.; com. Nov. 24, as 2nd Lt., Q. M. C; as. to motor transportation; pro. 
Oct. 1, 1918, to be 1st Lt. M. T. C; hon. dis. Feb. 3, 1919. 

DALY, MICHAEL JOSEPH: 

Born in Andover; enl., at Fort Strong, Boston in 55th Coast Art.; sailed for France March, 
1918; transferred to 119th F. A.; died of wounds received from German airplane bomb, 
Sept. 2, 1918. 

DAVIES, GEORGE CHISHOLM: 

Born, Glasgow, Scotland; reported Sept. 3, 1918; assigned to 15th Co., 4th Battalion at 
Camp Devens; 2nd Co., 1st Battalion Depot Brigade. Hon. dis. Dec. 11, 1918. 
Present address — • 3 Buxton Court, Andover, Mass. 

DAVIES, THOS.: 

Enl., April, 1917 in Battery C, 102nd F. A.; sailed overseas Sept., 1917; in all battles of 26th 
Div.; returned April, 1919; hon. dis., April 29, 1919. 
Present address — Andover, Mass. 



170 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

DAVIS, CHARLES WILLIAM: 

Born, Andover, Mass.; enl. July 30, 1918; assigned to Co. 18, 5th Battalion, at Camp Syr- 
acuse. Hon. dis. Aug. 9, 1918. 
Present address — 4 Harding St., Andover, Mass. 

DAVIS, EDWARD BARTON: 

Born, Aug. 30, 1892, Andover, Mass.; enl. Aug. 15, 1918, — Motor Transportation Corps, 
Repair Unit 307. Left U. S. Oct. 19, 1918, returning Apr. 30, 1919. Made Sgt., Feb. 1, 1919. 
Hon. dis.. May 3, 1919, Camp Dix, N. J. 
Present address — Center St., Ballardvale, Mass. 



DAVIS, ELMER ERWIN: 

Born, Andover, Mass.; served on the Mexican Border from July, 1916 to Nov. 1916; enl. 
Mar. 25, 1917; assigned to Co. F, 101st Inf. at Framingham; sailed from Hoboken, Sept. 
7, 1917, arriving at St. Nazaire Sept. 20. Sailed from Brest, March 27, 1919, arriving at 
Boston, April 5. Was in the following battles: Chemin des Dames, Chateau-Thierry, 
Toul, Fleury, St. Mihiel, Seicheprey, and Argonne. Was wounded three times: left shoulder 
wound at St. Mihiel, concussion-paralysis of legs at Chateau-Thierry, gassed at Toul. 
Hon. dis., April 28, 1919. 
Present address — 4 Harding St., Andover, Mass. 

DEA, HENRY: 

Born, June 24, 1896; enl. May 30, 1917. Camp Syracuse, 16 Replacement Bn., June 5 to 

Nov. 21, '17; Co. D, 16 Inf., France, Nov. 21, 1917. Picardy Sector, 3 mos. ; Alsace-Lorraine, 

Battle of Soissons, July 18, 1917. Received two wounds. Hon. dis., Mar. 20, 1919, Camp 

Upton. 

Present address — Silver Bay, N. Y. 



DEA, ROBERT: 

Born, Mar. 19, 1893, Boston, Mass.; enl. Dec. 3, 1917. Specialist School, Fortress MonroCi 
Va., Dec. 3, '17 to Mar. 10, '18. Coast Defenses of Savannah, Ga., Fort Screven, Mar. 11, 
'18 to June 30, '18. 10th Anti-Air Craft Battery, France, July 1, 1918 to Jan. 1, 1919. The 
location of the 10th Anti-Aircraft Battery, France, was the defense of A. E. F. Hd'qtrs., 
Chaumont. Made Sgt., 1st cl.. Electrician, C. A. C, Mar. 12, 1918. Hon. dis., June 20, 
1919, U. S. A. Hosp. No. 19. 
Present address — 28 Summer St., Andover, Mass. 



DEA, THOMAS PATTERSON: 

Born, June 15, 1891, Jamaica Plain, Mass.; enl., Sept. 21, 1917, B. Co., 302 M. G. B., 76th 
Div., Camp Devens. Sailed for France July 8, 1918. Transferred to A Co., 2nd M. G. B., 
1st Div. In battles of St. Mihiel and Argonne Forest. Went to American Hosp. Base 57, 
Paris, for internal injuries, on Oct. 28, 1918. Transferred to Hosp. at Brest and sailed for 
home Dec. 24, 1918. Made Corp., Nov. 1, 1917. Hon. dis., Jan. 24, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 28 Summer St., Andover, Mass. 



DEAN, WILLIAM JUDSON: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — 8 Locke St., Andover, Mass. 



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DeFAZIO, CHARLES: 

Enl. April, 1917; assigned to Battery F, 102nd F. A.; promoted to Corp.; sailed from Ho- 
boken Sept. 23, 1917, arriving at St. Nazaire Oct. 5.; sailed from Brest March 31, 1919, 
arriving at Boston April 10, 1919; fought in battles of Seicheprey, Chateau-Thierry, 2nd 
Battle Marne, St. Mihiel, Argonne, Verdun, Toul; hon. dis., April 29, 1919. 
Present address — Wakefield, Mass. 

DeFAZIO, RALPH: 

Enl., April, 1917; assigned to Battery F, 102nd F. A.; sailed from Hoboken Sept. 23, 1917, 
arriving at St. Nazaire, Oct. 5; sailed from Brest March 31, 1919, arriving at Boston April 
10, 1919; fought in battles of 26th Division; hon. dis., April 29, 1919. 
Present address — Wakefield, Mass. 

DEMPSIE, JAMES, Jr.: 

Enl. Feb. 13, 1918 in 3rd Signal Service Co., 209th Field Signal Battalion, 9th Div.; hon. dis., 

Feb. 5, 1919. 

Present address — 12 Essex St,, Andover, Mass. 

DENTERMONT, ROY T.: 

Inducted Nov. 9. 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — 26 Pine St., Andover, Mass. 

DEVLIN, EDWARD J.: 

Born, Lawrence, Mass.; Seaman 1st class U. S. Navy;. enl. June 9, 1917; assigned to Com- 
monwealth Pier at Boston. Hon. dis., Nov. 22, 1918. 
Present address — 8 Brechin Terrace, Andover, Mass. 

DEYERMOND, ROBERT VICTOR: 

Born, June 10, 1892, Belfast, Ireland; enl. Apr. 22, 1918. 11th Co., 3rd Bn., Depot Brig., 
Camp Devens, 2 mos.; 302nd Inf., Co. K, 76th Div. and France, also 80th Div., 320th Inf., 
Co. C. In battles of St. Mihiel and Argonne. Pro. to Priv. 1st cl., June 12, 1918; to Corp., 
July 2, 1918, and to Sgt., Sept., 1918. Hon. dis., June 9, 1919, Camp Dix. 
Present address — Andover, Mass. 

DEYERMOND, WILLIAM: 

Born, Feb. 18, 1886, Belfast, Ireland; enl. Jan. 10, 1918, 16th Co., C. A. C, Jan. 10, 1918 to 
July 10, 1918. 43rd Art., C. A. C, July 13, 1918 to Jan. 23, 1919. Overseas, July 13, 1918 
to Jan. 11, 1919. In Meuse-Argonne operations. Made Corp., Mar. 1, 1918; Sgt., July 1, 

1918. Hon. dis., Jan. 23, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 16 Morton St., Andover, Mass. 

DICK, JAMES: 

Born, Jan. 12, 1886, Andover, Mass.; enl., July 24, 1917. Corp., Bat. C, 102nd F. A. 
Chemin des Dames, Seicheprey Battle, Xivray Battle, Aisne Marne, St. Mihiel, and 
Meuse-Argonne engagements. Hon. dis., Apr. 29, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 55 High St., Hartford, Conn. 

DIMLICH, HERBERT CHARLES: 

Born, Oct. 6, 1895, Lawrence, Mass.; enl. May 27, 1918. Co. C, 107 Field Sig. Bat., 32nd 
Div. Overseas Sept. 1, 1918 to May 19, 1919. Army of Occupation, Dec. 1, 1918 to Apr. 1, 

1919. Hon dis.. May 23, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — '104 Salem St., Andover, Mass. 



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DODGE, EDWARDS.: 

Born, June 9, 1898, Andover, Mass.;enl. April 16, 1917; assigned to Battery F, 102nd F. A., 
26th Division; served with A. E. F. 18 months. Sailed from Hoboken, Sept. 23, 1917, ar- 
riving at St. Nazaire, Oct. 5, 1917; sailed from Brest, March 31, 1919, arriving at Boston, 
April 10, 1919. Was in the battles of Seicheprey, Chateau-Thierry, 2nd battle of the 
Marne, St. Mihiel, Argonne, Toul. Hon. dis., April 29, 1919. 
Present address — 68 Park St., Andover, Mass. 

DODGE, (HORACE) HOLBROOK: 

Born May 23, 1900, Andover, Mass.; enl., Oct., 1918, Harvard S. A. T. C. Hon. dis., 

Dec, 1918, Cambridge, Mass. 

Present address — 68 Park St., Andover, Mass. 

DOHERTY, JOHN PHILIP: 

Born, May 5, 1900, Andover, Mass.; enl., Oct. 10, 1918, S. A. T. C, Boston College, 
Chestnut Hill, Mass. Hon. dis., Dec. 8, 1918, Chestnut Hill, Mass. 
Present address — 21 Harding St., Andover, Mass. 

DOHERTY, PETER: 

Born, Aug. 7, 1892, Dundee, Scotland; enl. Jan. 8, 1918. Served with the Railway Construc- 
tion Bn. Sailed from Montreal Aug. 17, 1918. Acting Corp. during voyage overseas. Hon. 
dis. from Peel St., Barracks (Montreal), Dec. 23, 1918, with rank of Sapper. 

DOLE, CHARLES MI NOT: 

Born, Apr. 18, 1899, Tyngsboro, Mass.; enl. Oct. 15, 1918, Central O. T. C, 39th Co., 7th 
Bn., Camp Lee, Va. Hon. dis., Nov. 19, 1918, Camp Lee, Va. 
Present address — 34 Phillips St., Andover, Mass. 

DOLE, PERCY JOSEPH: 

Born, Andover, Mass.; enl. Jan. 18, 1918; assigned to Kelly Field, Texas; transferred from 
870th Aero Squadron to U. S. Military School Aeronautics. Hon. dis., Nov. 30, 1918. 
Present address — 1 Stinson St., Andover, Mass. 

DONOVAN, F. M.: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 

Present address — Sunset Rock Road, R. F. D. No. 2, Andover, Mass. 



DONOVAN, MICHAEL JOSEPH: 

Born, Feb. 13, 1895, Andover;enl., Sept. 21, 1917,Co. B.,302d M. G.Bn.; hon. dis.,June 20, 

1919, Camp Devens, as private. 

Present address — 16 Pearson St., Andover, Mass. 

DONOVAN, RICHARD: 

Born, June 5, 1892, Ireland; enl., April 20, 1918, Hd'qtrs Co., C. E. F.; trained at Toronto, 
Canada; sailed for England, May 20, 1918; trained at Whitby Camp until Armistice was 
signed; hon. dis., Aug. 22, 1919, Toronto, Canada, as private. 
Present address — New York City. 



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DOUTY, WILLIAM FRANCIS: 

Born, Feb. 28, 1892, Southbridge, Mass.; enl. July 24, 1917. Hon. dis., July 30, 1917. 
Present address — Ballardvale, Mass. 

DOVE, PERCIVAL: 

Com. Sept. 18, 1917, as Major, Ord. Corps; as. as Inspector, Field Depot Branch; made Div. 
Ord. Officer, 12th Div., Camp Devens; trans, to be C. O., Morgan Gen. Ord. Depot; hon. 
dis., 1920. 

DOWD, DOMINICK JOSEPH: 

Born, Castle Baldwin, Ireland; enl. Oct. 5, 1918, in Co. B, Boston College S. A. T. C. at 

Boston. Hon. dis., Dec. 7, 1918. 

Present address — 59 Elm St., Andover, Mass. 

DOWD, JOHN PATRICK: 

Enl. in FCo. 101st Inf., Aug. 5, 1917; transferred, Jan. 10, 1919, to 128th St. Nazaire Casual 

Co.; Jan. 22nd, transferred to Hoboken Casual Co.; hon. dis., Feb. 1, 1919, at Camp Devens, 

Mass. 

Present address — 4 Brechin Terrace, Andover, Mass. 

DOWNS, EDWARD: 

Born, Dec. 1, 1888, Dundee, Scotland; enl., Dec. 14, 1917, Fort Andrews, Boston Harbor, 
13 Co., C. A. C, Dec. 14, 1917 to Jan. 16, 1918; Hd'qtrs. Co. 55 Regt. C. A. C, Jan. 16, 
1918 to Feb. 9, 1919. Left U. S. Mar. 24, 1918, arriving in France Apr. 2, 1918. Left France 
Jan. 10, 1919, arriving in N. Y., Jan. 22, 1919. In 2nd Battle of Marne; Aisne and Vesle 
Offensive; 3rd Battle of Verdun, Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Passed exam, for Gunner, 2nd 
cl., May 1, 1918. MadePriv.. 1st cl., June 1, 1918. Hon. dis., Feb. 9, 1919, Fort Wright, 
N. Y. 
Present address — 41 Elm St., Andover, Mass. 

DRISCOLL, JOHN J.: 

Born, Andover, Mass.; inducted Nov. 9, 1918. Hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — 40 Chestnut St., Andover, Mass. 

DRISCOLL, LEO PATRICK: 

Born, Dec. 20, 1896, Andover, Mass.; enl. March 26, 1918; assigned to U. S. Navy at 
Hingham; transferred to Armed Guard, Brooklyn, N. Y. Seaman, 1st cl. and gun cap- 
tain. Hon. dis., Dec. 20, 1918. 
Present address — 53 Essex St., Andover, Mass. 

DUDLEY, ALEXANDER JOSEPH: 

Born, Dundee, Scotland; enl. Aug. 25, 1917; assigned to Headquarters, 29th Div. at Camp 
McClellan, Ala., as Army Field Collector. Served with A. E. F. 12 months; sailed from 
Newport News, June 14, 1918, arriving at St. Nazaire, June 28. Sailed from Brest, June 5, 
1919, arriving at New York, June 12. In the battle of Argonne. Accident at Bourbeonne- 
les Baines, April 5, 1918. Hon. dis., Sept. 4, 1919. 
Present address — 76 Essex St., Andover, Mass. 

DUGAN, JAMES: 

Enl., April 1917 in Bat. C, 102nd F. A.; pro. to Corp.; sailed overseas, Sept. 1917; in all 
battles of 26th Division; returned April, 1919; hon. dis., Apr. 29, 1919. 
Present address — New York City. 



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DUGAN, JOHN LEO: 

Born, Dec. 21, 1895, Andover, Mass.; enl., Apr. 9, 1917 as Chief Yeoman, U. S. N. R. F. 
U. S. Naval Dispensary, Boston, Mass., Apr. 9 to Sept. 30, 1918. U. S. Receiving Ship, 
Sept. 30 to Mar. 28, 1919. Released from active duty at Receiving Ship, Boston, Mass., 
Mar. 28, 1919. 
Present address — 27 Maple Ave., Andover, Mass. 

DUGAN, PETER JOSEPH: 

Born, Ashton, Underlyen, England; enl. as 4 year Reserve Man; reported July 25, 1917; 

assigned to Commonwealth Pier, Boston; transferred to Transport Service, U. S. S. Mt. 

Vernon. Landed at Brest, France nine times and at Southampton, Eng. Hon. dis., Jan. 20, 

1919. 

Present address — Highland Road, Andover, Mass. 

DUFFEN, HAROLD RODERICK: 

Born, Feb. 1, 1900, Methuen, Mass.; enl., June 13, 1918. 181st Co. Marines at Paris 
Island, S. C, June 20, 1918-Aug. 10, 1918; D Co., 6th Separate Bn., U. S. Marines, Aug. 11, 
1918-Oct. 1, 1918, 76th Co., 1st Bn., 5th Reg't., U. S. Marines, Oct. 3, 1919-Aug. 13, 1920. 
On burial detail on Champagne sector. Went over the top in Argonne Drive, also in Meuse. 
Marched up into Germany in Nov., remaining there until July, 1919. Hon. dis., Aug. 13, 
1919, Quantico, Va. 
Present address — 44 West St., Methuen, Mass. 

DUNCAN, JAMES: 

Born, Sept. 26, 1897, Johnshaven, Scotland; enl. July 1, 1918 with Canadians. 1st Central 
Ontario Reg't., June 1 to June 16. 4th Div., M. G. Corps, June 16 to July 1, 1919. Left 
Canada for England and France, June 24, 1918; returned to Canada, July 1, 1919. Hon. 
dis., July 1, 1919, Montreal, Canada. 
Present address — 58 Essex St., Andover, Mass. 

DUNNELLS, CLIFFORD W.: 

Born, Aug. 12, 1893, Andover, Mass.; enl. Aug. 22, 1917. Field Hosp. 20, Ft. Oglethorpe, 
Ga.; McClellan, Ala.; Wadsworth, So. Carolina; O. T. C. (Infantry) Camp Dodge, la. and 
Camp Grant, 111. Made Corp., Feb., 1918. Hon. dis., Dec. 4, 1918, Camp Grant, 111. 
Present address — 19 Haverhill St., Andover, Mass. 

DUNNELLS, HOWARD WINSLOW: 

Born, June 28, 1898, Andover, Mass.; enl. Apr. 7, 1917, as Seaman, U. S. Navy. Hon. 

dis., Dec. 14, 1917, Chelsea Naval Hosp. 

Present address — 19 Haverhill St., Andover, Mass. 

EASTWOOD, CLARENCE B.: 

Born, Oct. 25, 1893, Andover, Mass.; enl. July 26, 1917. In battles of Seicheprey, Xivray, 

Second Battle of Marne, St. Mihiel, and Argonne-Meuse. Hon. dis., Apr. 29, 1919, Camp 

Devens. 

Present address — 191 No. Main St., Andover, Mass. 

EASTWOOD, GEORGE L.: 

Born, Nov. 8, 1896, Andover; enl., June 1, 1918, private, 1st cl.. Camp Johnston, Jackson- 
ville, Fla.; as. 333rd Supply Co., as Storage Battery Instructor; overseas, Oct. 6, 1918- 
July 27, 1919; hon. dis.. Camp Devens, Aug. 5, 1919. 
Present address: 191 No. Main St., Andover, Mass. 

EATON, CHARLES ALFRED: 

Born, Andover, Mass.: enl., April 29, 1918; llthCo.,3rd Bn., 151st D. B.; hon. dis., from 

Camp Devens, May 10, 1918. 

Present address — 21 Bartlett St., Andover, Mass. 



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EATON, THAXTER: 

Born, July 28, 1887, Andover, Mass.; enl. Apr. 29, 1918. 9th Co., 3rd Bn., 151st Dep. 
Brig., Camp Devens, Apr. 29 to July 15, 1918; Det. Med. Dept., 151st Dep. Brig., Camp 
Devens, July 15, 1918 to May 27, 1919. Made Sgt., Dec. 13, '18; Sgt., 1st cl.. May 7, 1919. 
Hon. dis., May 27, 1919. 
Present address — 2 Summer St., Andover, Mass. 

EDWARDS, GEORGE: 

Enl. Oct. 19, 1918 in C. E. F. Engineers; hon. dis., Dec. 19, 1918. 
Present address — 28 Main St., Andover, Mass. 

ELDRED, EDWARD THOMAS: 

Born, June 27, 1891, London, England; enl., June 24, 1916, as Priv., 1st cl., with Co, F, 
101st Inf., 26th Div. Chemindes Dames, Feb. 6-Mar. 21, 1918; Toul Sector, Mar. 28 to 
Apr. 20, 1918; St. Mihiel, May 4 to July 28, 1918; Chateau Thierry, July 20 to July 28, 
1918. Hon. dis.. May 2, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 46 Maple Ave., Andover, Mass. 

ELDRED, GEORGE F.: 

Born, London, England; enl., Aug. 16, 1917. 68th Aero Squadron, Aug. 21, to Dec. 25, 
1918, and 489th Aero Squadron, Dec. 15 to Feb. 21, 1919, at Kelly Field, Texas, and 
Romorantin, France. Made Priv. 1st cl., Feb. 1, 1918; Corp., June 2, 1919. Hon. dis., 
Feb. 21, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 139 No. Main St., Andover, Mass. 

ELDRED, JOHN HENRY: 

Born, 1893, London, England; enl. Dec. 11, 1917. Hd'qtrs. Co., 1st Bat., 55th Art., 
C. A. C. 2nd Battle of Marne; Operations on Vesle, Aug. 9 to Sept. 8, 1918, and Meuse- 
Argonne offensive, Sept. 25, inclusive. Made Priv. 1st cl., June 1, 1918. Hon. dis Feb 
5, 1919, Fort Wright, N.Y. 
Present address — 139 No. Main St., Andover, Mass. 

ELDRED, WILLIAM: 

Born, London, England; reported Nov. 9, 1918. Hon. dis., Nov. 18, 1918. 
Present address — 90 No. Main St., Andover, Mass. 

ENGLISH, CHARLES P.: 

Born, Sept. 1, 1894, Andover, Mass.; enl., Apr. 19, 1918. 301st Eng. (Base Hosp. 18, 
Baizwolles, France). St. Mihiel Offensive, Sept. 12-16, 1918; Toul Sector, Sept, 17-Nov 
11, 1918-May 11, 1919. Hon. dis., June 20, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 127 Butler St., Lawrence, Mass. 

ENGLISH, RAYMOND W. : 

Born, Mar. 29, 1900, Andover, Mass.; enl. Oct. 7. 1918; assigned to Co. A, Boston Col- 
lege S. A. T. C, at Boston. Hon. dis., Dec. 17, 1918. 
Present address — 39 High St., Andover, Mass. 

ERVING, JOHN MIDDLETON: 

Born, Nov. 27, 1896, Andover, Mass.; enl. May 14, 1916. Entered active service July 25, 
1917. With Co. L, 8th Mass. Reg. M. V. M. and M. N. G., Mar. 14, 1916 to July 15, 1917. 
With Bat. F, 2nd Reg., M. N. G., and 102nd U. S. F. A., July 15, 1917 to Aug. 24, 1918. 
With Chemical Warfare Service, attached to 4th Div., Aug. 24, 1918 to Jan. 30, 1919. On 
detached service with 51st F. A. Brig. Hd'qtrs., Feb. 15, 1918 to Aug. 24, 1918. With 26th 
Div. in all operations until Aug. 24, 1918; then with 4th Div. in France and Army of Occu- 
pation. Gassed, June 5, 1918. Hon. dis., Apr. 16, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 59 Salem St., Andover, Mass. 



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FAIRWEATHER, JAMES D.: 

Born, Nov. 12, 1888, Arbroath, Scotland; enl., Aug. 30, 1918. 52nd Bn., Camp Upton, N. Y. 
Aug. 30-Sept. 12; Chemical Warfare, Camp Kendricks, Lakehurst, N. J., Sept. 12-Dec. 16, 

1918. Hon. dis., Dec. 16, 1918, Camp Kendricks. 
Present address — Andover, Mass. 

FEENEY, BYRON J.: 

Inducted Nov. 8, 1918 at Georgetown; hon. dis. from Camp Lee, Va., Nov. 13, 1918. 
Present address — Andover, Mass. 

FEENEY, JAMES WARREN: 

Born June 17, 1895, Andover, Mass.; enl. May 12, 1917, as Cadet, R. O. T. C, Plattsburg, 
N. Y. At Plattsburg until Aug., 1917. Aug., 1917 to Jan., 1918, 76th Div., Camp Devens 
Jan., 1918 to Sept., 1918, Zone Q. M., Washington, D. C, as Motor Transport Officer. 
Sept., 1918 to Jan. 1919, 14th Div., Camp Custer, Mich., as Disbursing Officer, also Div, 
Athletic Officer. Made 2nd Lt. Q. M. C, Aug. 15, 1917; 1st Lt., Q. M. C, Mar. 11, 1918; 
Captain, Q. M. C, Aug. 16, 1918. Hon. dis., Jan. 31, 1919, Camp Custer. Has since 
died of tuberculosis contracted while in service. 

FERGUSON, GEORGE W.: 

Born, Springfield, Mass.; reported Nov. 10, 1918; assigned to Camp Lee. Hon. dis., Nov. 

12, 1918. 

Present address — Draper Cottage, Andover, Mass. 

FETTES, CHARLES JOHNSTON: 

Born, Sept. 23, 1884, Arbroath, Scotland; enl., Feb. 11, 1918. With 2nd Bn., 1st Central 
Ontario Reg't., Canada, and 8th Canadian Reserve, Savoy, England. Hon. dis., June 18, 

1919, Toronto, Canada. 

Present address — 17 Baker's Lane, Andover, Mass. 

FETTES, JAMES: 

Born, Sept. 30, 1886, Arbroath, Scotland; enl., Oct. 22, 1915, British Army, 4th Black 
Watch; home service until May 31, 1916; in France on battle front, June, 1916-Oct., 1917; 
inbattlesof High Wood (June, 1916), Armentieres (July-Sept., 1916) ; Beaumont Hamel (Nov. 
1916) ;trans.to8th Black Watch Reg't, May, 1917 ;atbattlesof Arras (May-Junel917),Ypres 
(Sept. -Oct., 1917); wounded at Passendale Ridge Battle; severely wounded, Oct. 12,1917, 
hon. dis., Jan. 21, 1919, Dundee, Scotland, as private. 

FITZGERALD, DANIEL AUGUSTINE: 

Born, Jan. 28, 1895, Lawrence, Mass.; enl., Apr. 13, 1917 as M. M., 2nd cl. Six weeks in 
training at Bumpkin Island, from there to Submarine Base at New London, Conn. Did 
research work on Submarines and helped perfect, test, and install many anti-submarine de- 
vices. Pro. to M. M., 1st cl., Apr. 2, 1918. Pro. to Ch. M. M., Oct. 15, 1918. Hon. dis., 
Feb. 14, 1919, New London, Conn. 
Present address — 134 Exeter St., Lawrence, Mass. 

FLEMING, EDWARD HENRY: 

Born, Sept. 12, 1892, Ireland; enl. May 10, 1918. Troop E, 310th Cavalry, Fort Ethan 
Allen, Vt., May 10, 1918-Oct. 16, 1918; Bat. E, 58th F. A., Camp Jackson, S. C, Oct. 16, 
1918-Jan. 30, 1919. Hon. dis., Jan. 30, 1919, Camp Devens, as Priv., 1st cl. 
Present address — 54 Haverhill St., Andover, Mass. 

FLEMING, JOHN J.: 

Born, Mar. 2, 1889, Ireland; enl. Oct. 5, 1917. 304th Ambulance Co. 301 Sanitary train, 
Camp Devens. Sailed overseas July 5, 1918, returning Dec. 16, 1918. Hon. dis., Dec. 16, 
1918, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 54 Haverhill St., Andover, Mass. 




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FLEMING, WILLIAM ANTHONY: 

Born, Oct. 7, 1896, Ireland; enl. May 5, 1918. Medical Corps, U. S. N.; Naval Training 
Station, Hingham, Mass.; U. S. Radio School, Cambridge, Mass.; Naval Rifle Range, 
Wakefield. Made Hospital Apprentice, 1st cl., Aug. 5, 1918; Pharmacists Mate, 3rd cl., 
Nov. 5, 1918. Hon. dis., Jan. 5, 1919, Little Building, Boston, Mass. 
Present address — 54 Haverhill St., Andover, Mass. 

FLINT, ROYS.: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 

Present address — Jenkins Road R. F. D. 2, Andover Mass. 

FORBES, DAVID A.: 

Born, Scotland; enl., Sept. 21, 1917, Camp Devens; hon. dis., Oct. 1, 1917, S. C. D., Camp 

Devens. 

Present address — 60 Red Spring Road, Andover, Mass. 

FORSYTH, ALEXANDER: 

Born, Feb. 7, 1896, Belfast, Ireland; 1st Class Priv. 109th Ind. 28th Div. Reported May 

27, 1918; assigned to 7th Co., 152nd Dep. Brigade at Camp Upton; transferred to 49th 
Inf. Hq. Co. then to Co. K, 109th Inf. Served with A. E. F. from July 30, 1918 to April 22, 
1919. Sailed from Hoboken, June 22, 1918, arriving at Brest July 2, 1918; sailed from St. 
Nazaire, Apr. 24, 1919, arriving at Phila., May 3, 1919. In the following battles and cam- 
paigns: Meuse, Argonne Offensive, Thiaucourt Sector. Injured from gas inhalation at 
Apremont, France, Sept. 28, 1918. Hon. dis.. May 10, 1919. 

Present address — 5 Barnard St., Andover, Mass. 

FORSYTHE, WILLIAM JOHN: 

Born, Aug. 2, 1894, Lisburn, Ireland; enl. Dec. 2, 1917. Service Park Unit No. 335, 77th 
Div. Left for France Apr. 16, 1918, returned, June 19, 1919. In battles of Baccarat, Vesle, 
Oise-Aisne, and Meuse-Argonne. Pro. to Sgt., 2nd cl., Apr. 1918. Pro. to Sgt., 1st cl., July 
12, 1918. Hon. dis., July 24, 1919, Camp Devens, Mass. 
Present address — 189 No. Main St., Andover, Mass. 

FOSTER, KENNETH CLEMONS: 

Born, Feb. 8, 1895, Andover, Mass.; enl., Sept. 21, 1917, as Priv. 1st cl. With 302nd M. G. 
Bn. at Camp Devens, Sept. 21, '17 to Nov. 10, '17. Cadet, M. I. T., and Princeton, Nov. 11, 
'17 to Mar. 16, '18. Camp Dick, Dallas, Texas, Mar. 25, '18 to May 10, '18. Ellington 
Field, Houston, Texas, May 11, '18 to Jan. 16, '19. Com. 2nd Lt. A. S. (Aeronautics) Oct. 

28, '18. Hon. dis., Jan. 16, 1919, Ellington Field, Houston, Texas. 
Present address — Juniper Ave., Salem Willows, Mass. 

FOSTER, WILLIAM PHILLIPS: 

Inducted Oct. 1, 1918, S. A. T. C; hon. dis., Dec. 30, 1918. 
Present address — 98 Central St., Andover, Mass. 

FRASER, HERBERT FREEMAN: 

Enl. Mar. 29, 1918, as priv. ; assigned to Gas Mask work at Goodrich Rubber Co., Goodyear 
Tire Co., and Tyer Rubber Co. Hon. dis., Jan. 29, 1919. 
Present address — School St., Andover, Mass. 

FRENCH, EDWARD VINTON: 

Born, Mar. 1 1, 1868, Lynn, Mass. ; com. Apr. 8, 1918 as Major, Q. M. C. Served as Chief of 
the Bureau of Fire Prevention, A. E. F. with Hd'qtrs at Tours, France. Sailed from Hobo- 
ken, N. J., May 22, 1918. Sailed from England, May 17, 1919. Hon. dis., Camp Dix, May 
31, 1919. 
Present address — 20 School St., Andover, Mass. 



180 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

FRESNADA, ANTHONY M.: 

Born, July 23, 1896, at Jacksonville, Fla. Entered the service in July, 1918, in 156th Depot 
Brigade; transferred to 47th Amb. Co., Camp Jackson, S. C. Promoted to Corporal in 
Nov. 1918. Hon. dis. from Camp Jackson, S. C. in Feb., 1919. 

FROTTEN, AMOS: 

Enl., April, 1917 in Co. L, 104th Inf.; sailed overseas Sept., 1917; in all battles of 26th Div.; 
returned April, 1919; hon. dis., April 29, 1919. 
Present address — Andover, Mass. 

FUESS, CLAUDE MOORE: 

Born, Jan. 12, 1885, Waterville, N. Y. ; Civilian Ch. of Personnel Div., Camp Johnston, Apr. 
20-Sept. 25, 1918; com. Sept. 25 as Major, Q. M. C, and as. as Ch. of Personnel Div., 
Camp Johnston; trans. Dec. 11 to Washington, O. Q. M. G.; hon. dis., Dec. 19, 1918. 

Present address — 183 Main St., Andover, Mass. 

GALLANT, JOSEPH: 

Ind., Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 

Present address — South Main Street, Andover, Mass. 

GALLANT, WILLIAM J.: 

Born, Shidiai, N. B.; Priv., Med. Det., 151st Dep. Brigade; reported April 26, 1918; assigned 
to 25th Co., Dep. Brigade at Camp Devens; transferred to 352nd Baking Co., to 151st 
Dep. Brigade; hon. dis., 1919. 
Present address — 21 Brechin Terrace, Andover, Mass. 

GARSIDE, THOMAS H.: 

Born, Andover, Mass.; reported Dec. 7, 1917 for duration of the war; assigned to Naval 
Reserve Force at Newport, R. I. 6 months in Foreign Service in Plymouth, England; sailed 
from New York, June 14, 1918, arriving at Southampton, England, June 21, 1918. Sailed 
from Southampton, Dec. 27, 1918, arriving in New York, Jan. 7, 1919. Released Feb. 
5, 1919. 
Present address: — 48 So. Union St., Andover, Mass. 

GEAGAN, JOHN J.: 

Born, Versailles, Conn., Sept. 12, 1886; enl. Nov. 23, 1917 at St. Louis; stationed at Jef- 
ferson Barracks; transferred to Ft. Myer, Va.; sailed from U. S. July 1, 1918; Medical De- 
tachment, 1st Gas Reg.; killed in action, Nov. 1, 1918. 

GEAGAN, PATRICK F.: 

Enl., April 8, 1917, as Ch. Elec, U. S. N. R. F.; pro., June, to Gunner; Apr.-Oct., 1917, 
Supervisor of repair work and installation of new wireless sets on ships. New Orleans Navy 
Yard; Oct., 1917-Jan., 1919, Censor of Wireless Messages, Swan Island; hon. dis., Mar. 20, 
1919, New Orleans, La. 

GIBSON, ALEXANDER: 

Enl. March 14, 1918 in Canadian Army; 13th R. H. C, Canadian Black Watch; hon. dis.. 

May 19, 1919. 

Present address — 9 Shawsheen Road, Andover, Mass. 

GIBSON, GEORGES.: 

Born, Cambridge, Mass. ; reported Sept. 1918; assigned to Recruit Camp at Syracuse, N. Y.; 
transferred to 151st Dep. Brigade, Camp Devens; Headquarters, Air Service Detach., 
Dayton, Ohio. Hon. dis. April 3, 1919. 
Present address — Woburn St., Andover, Mass. 



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GILL, THOMAS: 

Born, Sept. 25, 1889, Andover, Mass.; enl„ July 5, 1917. On U. S. S. Rochester, cruiser and 
transport service, convoying troops between New York and Brest, St. Nazaire and Bor- 
deaux. Hon. dis., Sept. 9, 1919 as Fireman, 1st cl. 
Present address — 334 Hart Ave., Detroit, Mich. 

GILLEN, JAMES BLAINE: 

Born, Aug. 11, 1888, Lawrence, Mass.; Enl. Plattsburg Barracks, Plattsburg, N. Y. Aug. 23, 
1917; com. 1st Lt., I. R. C, U. S. Army, Nov. 27, 1917; sailed for overseas duty Jan. 9, 
1918 unassigned; assigned from Infantry Specialists Schools, Army School of the Line, 
A. E. F., to 369th U.S. Infantry in Argonne, March 24, 1918; transferred to Tank Corps, 
A. E. F., May 23, 1918; promoted to Captain, Nov. 7, 1918; hon. dis. as Captain, Adju- 
tant 302nd T. C, May 9, 1919 at Camp Meade, Md. 
Present address — 2 Summer St., Andover, Mass. 

GILLESPIE, DAVID DORWARD: 

Born, Oct. 13, 1896, Arbroath, Scotland; enl., Mar. 11, 1917, Canadian Forces.as Corp '1 
Army Service Corps; sent, Apr. 3., to England; trans, to 13th Canadian Black Watch; ar. 
France, Apr. 24., 1917; in battles of Arras, Ypres, Walcourt, Couseycourt, Cambrai, St. 
Quentin, Mons; did duty at Brussels and Cologne; gassed at St. Quentin, Oct. 12, 1918; 
blind for 12 days; hon. dis., Apr. 19, 1919, Montreal, Canada. 
Present address — 14 Harding St., Andover, Mass. 

GILLESPIE, JOHN: 

Born, Apr. 13, 1895, Dumfermline, Scotland; enl., Sept. 25, 1918. Hd'qtrs., 18th Bn,, 
Camp Dix, N. J., Sept. 25, 1918 to Dec. 2, 1918. Hon. dis., Dec. 2, 1918, Camp Dix, N. J. 
Present address — C-o McClary Mfg. Co., Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. (Home, — 54 
High St., Andover, Mass.) 

GILLIARD, FREDERICK WILLIAM: 

Born, May 1, 1893, Philadelphia, Pa.; enl. Sept. 5, 1918 — Camp Upton, N. Y., 152nd 

Depot Brigade, 5th Co., 2nd Bn., 4th Platoon (infantry). Hon. dis., Sept. 9, 1918, Camp 

Upton. 

Present address — 28 Chestnut St., Andover, Mass. 

GILLIS, WILLIAM: 

Born, Reading, Mass.; inducted. May 15, 1918; assigned to Kingston State College; trans- 
ferred from there to Fort Andrews, Newport, R. I. Hon. dis., Jan. 15, 1919. 
Present address — Oak St., Ballardvale, Mass. 

GOLDSMITH, CLARENCE: 

Born, May 29, 1874, Andover, Mass.; com., Apr. 6, 1918 as Major, Construction Div., Q. 
M. C, Washington, D. C. Advisory Engineer on Fire Protection and principal assistant to 
Advisory Engineer on Water Supply for all emergency construction work in the U. S. and 
insular possessions. Hon. dis., Apr. 30, 1919, Washington, D. C. 
Present address — 209 West Jackson Blvd., Chicago, 111. 

GOLDSTEIN, CHARLES: 

Co. G, 4th U. S. Inf., 3rd Div., Army of Occupation in Germany, 1919. Enl. from Pitts- 
field in Oct., 1917; assigned to Ft. Slocum; transferred to Chickamauga and attached to 
Co. 3, M. G. B. 3rd Division; went overseas June, 1918, with 175th casuals and served in 
France until armistice was signed; sent from Army of Occupation in Germany to Poland; 
last Andover overseas man to get home. 
Present address — Park St., Andover, Mass. 



182 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

GORDON, DAVID SANDEMAN: 

Born, Sept. 6, 1895, Arbroath, Scotland; enl. April 16, 1917. With Bat. F, 102nd F. A., 51st 
Brig., 26th Div. Sailed from Hoboken Sept. 23, 1917, arriving at St. Nazaire, France, Oct. 
5th, 1917. Sailed from Brest, Mar. 31, 1919, arrived in U. S. Apr. 10, 1919. In battles of 
Argonne-Meuse, Seicheprey, Xivray, Second Battle of Marne, and St. Mihiel. Hon. dis., 
Apr. 29, 1919, Camp Devens, as Priv., 1st cl. 
Present address — 88 No. Main St., Andover, Mass. 

GORDON, WILLIAM: 

Born, Oct. 31, 1888, Scotland; enl., Dec. 1, 1917. With 23rd Eng., Fort Slocum, Nov. 30- 
Dec. 1 ; Camp Meade, Dec. 7, from there to Glen Burnie, then to Laurel, Md. Sailed from 
Hoboken, Mar. 30, arriving at Brest Apr. 13, 1918. In St. Mihiel oflfensive and the Meuse- 
Argonne when the Armistice was signed. Left Brest for U. S. May 29, arriving June 9, 
1919. Hon. dis., June 19, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 21 Bartlet St., Andover, Mass. 

GORDON, WILLIAM ALEXANDER REID: 

Born, Nov. 6, 1884, Montrose, Scotland; enl., July 28, 1917. 236th Bn. McLean Highland- 
ers, July 28, 1917 until Mar. 8, 1918; transferred in France to 72nd Seaforth Highlanders 
Mar. 8th, until discharged. In battles of Lens, Arras, Appy, Vimy Ridge, Arleux, in ad- 
vance at Amiens, Aug. 8th and at Arras, Sept. 2nd, 1919. Received large gunshot wound 
back of right thigh while at Cambria, Sept. 29, 1919. Hon. dis., Mar. 15, 1919, Montreal, 
Quebec, Canada. 
Present address — 105 No. Main St., Andover, Mass. 

GOUGH, WILLIAM ERNEST: 

Born, Oct. 18, 1889, Lawrence, Mass.; enl. Oct. 5, 1917, discharged Oct. 11; re-inducted, 
Apr. 29, 1918. 19th Co., 5th Bn., Depot Brig. Camp Devens, Oct. 1917; 10th Co., 3rd Bn., 
Depot Brigade, Camp Devens, Apr., 1918. Military Police Provost Guard, Camp Devens, 
June 1918 to Sept. 1918. Pigeon Section S. C, Sept. 1918, Camp Devens. Camp Alfred 
Vail, Little Silver, N. J., Oct., 1918 to Nov., 1918. Nov., 1918 to Mar. 6, 1918, Pigeon 
Section S. C, Fort Jay, Governors Island, N. Y. Hon. dis., Mar. 6, 1919, Fort Jay. 
Present address — Foster's Pond Road, Andover, Mass. 

GRAVES, HENRY SOLON: 

Born, May 3, 1871, Marietta, Ohio; com., June 6, 1917 as Major of Eng. Corps, Forestry 
Service. Staff work in France, with 20th Eng. (Forestry). Pro. to Lt. Col., Sept., 1917. 
Hon. dis., Feb. 2, 1918. 
Present address — 3454 Newark St., Washington, D. C. 

GRAY, ARTHUR LESTER: 

Born, Feb. 3, 1893, Andover, Mass.; reported Nov. 8, 1918; assigned to Motor Trans. 
Service at Camp Lee, Va. Hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — 32 Washington Ave., Andover, Mass. 

GRAY, CLAREMONT IRA: 

Born, Sept. 2, 1896, Andover, Mass.; enl., Sept. 3, 1918. 15th Co., 4th Bn., 151st Depot 
Brig., Camp Devens, and Casual Detachment, 151st Depot Brig., Camp Devens. Hon. 
dis., Jan. 2, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 32 Washington Ave., Andover, Mass. 

GRAY, HAROLD W.: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — Dascombe Road, Ballardvale, Mass. 



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GREELISH, JAMES ALBERT: 

Born, Dec. 22, 1891, Manchester, N. H.; enl. Sept. 21, 1917 as Priv. 1st cl. Served with 
302nd M. G. B., Camp Devens, 1917; sailed for overseas July, 1918. Transferred to Co, 
L, 165th Reg't., 42nd Div. In battles of St. Mihiel, Essey Pamiers, Argonne-Meuse, and 
with Army of Occupation. Hon. dis.. May 22, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 60 Morton St., Andover, Mass. 

GREEN, ERNEST: 

Enl., April 1917, in Co. L, 104th Inf.; sailed overseas Sept. 1917; in all battles of 26th Div.; 
returned, April, 1919; hon. dis., April 29, 1919. 
Present address — Andover, Mass. 

GREEN, ERNEST W.: 

Enl. June 18, 1914 in Co. L, 8th Mass. Inf.; Sept. 6, 1917 trans, to Co. L, 103rd Inf.; hon- 

dis., May 8, 1919. 

Present address — 90 Main St., Andover, Mass. 

GREENE, FRANCIS HENRY: 

Enl. Dec. 11, 1917 in Battery F, 54th Art., C. A. C; hon. dis.. Mar. 13, 1919. 
Present address — 72 Higgins Ct., Andover, Mass. 

GREENHOW, WILLIAM H.: 

Born, Sept. 5, 1891, Arbroath, Scotland; enl. Oct. 5, 1917. Served with Co. B, 327 Inf., 

82nd Div. from Oct. 5, 1917 to May 28, 1919. Served overseas from April 25, 1918 to May 

18, 1919. In Toul Sector June 25-Aug. 9, 1918; Meubeuge Sector, Aug. 17-Sept. 11, 1918; 

St. Mihiel Offensive, Sept. 12-Sept. 16, 1918; Meuse-Argonne Offensive, Sept. 29-Oct, 9, 

1918. Made Corp. May 29, 1918. Gassed, Oct. 9, 1918. Hon. dis., May 28, 1919, Camp 

Devens. 

Present address — 128 No. Main St., Andover, Mass. 

GREENWOOD, CHARLES HENRY: 

Born, Aug. 14, 1888, xMerrimac, Mass.; enl. Apr. 29, 1918. Joined 301st Eng. Apr. 29, 1918. 
Sailed from Brooklyn, N. Y., July 14, 1918; arrived at LeHavre, France, July 29, 1919. In 
St. Mihiel offensive Sept. 12-16, '18; Toul Sector, Sept. 17-Nov. 11, 1918; Army of Occupa- 
tion, Nov. 17, '18 to May 27, '19. Made Corp., Sept. 1, 1918, Sgt., Apr. 1, 1919. Hon. dis., 
June 20, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 6 Belmont St., Lawrence, Mass. 

GRIFFIN, NORMAN PALMER: 

Born, July 30, 1898, Cambridge, Mass.; enl.. May 29, 1917 (sworn in), — Feb. 25, 1918, 
reported at Camp Devens, Base Hosp. No. 7, Camp Devens, Feb. 25, '18 to July 6, '18. 
Joue les Tours, Indre et Louie, France, July 30, '18 to Feb. 11, '19. Transferred to Base 
Hosp. No. 120 at same place and left there June 20, '19 for U. S. Made Corp. May 24, 1919. 
Hon. dis., July 17, 1919, Camp Devens, Mass. 
Present address — Andover, Mass. 

GROUT, JOHN W.: 

Born, Aug. 13, 1893, Cambridge, Mass.; enl., April, 1917; hon. dis., July, 1919. 
Present address — 77 Main Street, Andover, Mass. 

GROUT, WALTER THORNDIKE: 

Enl. Apr. 1917, as priv.. Bat, F, 102nd F. A., 26th Div.; with A. E. F.; hon. dis., Apr., 1919. 
Present address — 77 Main St., Andover, Mass. 



184 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

HADDON, WILLIAM 

Enl., 1918, Camp Devens; Co. I, 42d Inf., 12th Div.; hon. dis., 1919. 

HAIGH, WILLIAM H.: 

Born, Feb. 1, 1892, Andover, Mass.; enl., Sept. 25, 1918. 71st Co. 153 D. B., Camp Dix, 
Sept. 25, '18-Oct. 22, '18; 74th Eng., Camp Humphrey, Oct. 22, '18-Jan. 6, '19; Co. D, 
2nd E. T. R., Camp Humphrey, Jan. 6, '19-Feb. 4, '19. Made Corp. Dec. 3, 1918. Hon. dis., 
Feb. 4, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 34 Washington Ave., Andover, Mass. 

HALE, EDWARD R.: 

Born, Castine, Me. Reported, Nov. 9, 19 18; assigned to Camp Lee. Hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 

HALL, ALBERT L.: 

Born, April 7, 1896, Methuen, Ma s.; enl., May 23, 1917; assigned to 101st Engineers; 
sailed for France Sept. 24, 1917; sailed for U. S. March 29, 1919; engaged in the following 
battles and campaigns, Toul Sector, April 1, 1918-June 19; Rupt Sector, Sept. 2-Sept. 12, 
1918; St. Mihiel, Sept. 12-Sept. 16; Troyon, Sept. 14-Oct. 10, 1918; Meuse-Argonne Off., 
Sept. 26-Nov, 11, 1918; made Serg't Oct. 16, 1918; hon. dis., from Camp Devens, Mass., 
April 28, 1919. 
Present address — 32 Florence St., Andover, Mass. 

HAMILTON, ANDREW PATTERSON: 

Born, Mar. 24, 1887, Glasgow, Scotland; enl., June 23, 1918, 55th Spruce Squadron, Van- 
couver, Canada. Hon. dis., Feb. 28, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 6 Temple Place, Andover, Mass. 

HAMMOND, WILBUR SMITH: 

Born, Aug. 17, 1897, Andover, Mass.; enl., Apr. 28, 1918, Fireman, U. S. N. Served 17 mos. 
on transport; 2 mos. with Atl. Fleet and 2 mos. at Newport Training Station. Hon. dis., 
Jan. 22, 1919, Hoboken, N. J., as Fireman, 1st cl. 
Present address — 2 Harding St., Andover, Mass. 

HARDING, RICHARD FRANKLIN: 

Born, Apr. 4, 1888, Cambridge, Mass. ; enl., Apr. 1, 1917. Bat. A., 101st F. A., until July, 

1918. Transferred to Hd'qtrs Co., 161 F. A., as Priv., 1st cl. A. E. F., Sept. 9, 1918-Apr. 9, 

1919. Major operations — Aisne-Marne offensive; St. Mihiel offensive; Meuse Argonne 
offensive. Made Corp. Aug., 1918. Received citation for exceptional gallantry at Chemin 
des Dames, Mar. 6, 1918. Hon. dis., Apr. 29, 1919. 

Present address — 71 High St., Andover, Mass. 

HARDY, FRANK KENNETH: 

Born, Oct. 22, 1897, Andover, Mass.; enl., Oct. 1, 1918, as C. Q. M., Aviation. Naval 
Aviation, Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 1, to Nov. 18, 1918. Hon. dis., Nov. 18, 1918, Boston, Mass. 
Present address — Shawsheen Road, Andover, Mass. 

HARDY, ROY EDWARD: 

Born, Aug. 30, 1892, Andover, Mass.; enl. May 10, 1918. 6th Machine Gun Co., Camp 
Hancock, Ga., sailed from N. Y., July 30, 1918 — Liverpool — Le Havre. Transferred at 
St. Aignan to Co. N., 116th Engrs., and stationed at Angers. Left St. Nazaire, Dec. 20, 
1918. Hon. dis., Jan. 6, 1919, Camp Upton. 
Present address — 115 Chestnut St., Andover, Mass. 



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HARNDEN, CHESTER HALL: 

Born, Apr. 17, 1883, Andover, Mass.; inducted Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Camp Lee, Nov. 

14, 1918. 

Present address — 36 Florence St., Andover, Mass. 

HARRIS, NORMAN EDWARD: 

Born, Oct. 16, 1898; enl.. May 3, 1918 as App. Seaman with U. S. Merchant Marine. Hon. 

dis., Jan. 6, 1919, Boston, Mass. 

Present address — 52 Howe St., New Haven, Conn. 

HART, CORNELIUS JOSEPH: 

Born, Andover, Mass.; enl., Aug. 3, 1917 as Priv. 1st cl., with Bat. P., 102nd F. A., 26th 
Div. In battles of Seicheprey, Xivray, Second Battle of Marne, St. Mihiel, Argonne- 
Meuse. Hon. dis., Apr. 29, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 20 High St., Andover, Mass. 

HART, DANIEL J.: 

Born, July 9, 1891, Andover, Mass.; enl., June 21, 1918, Co. F., 73rd Inf., Camp Devens; 
also with Co. I, 73rd Inf., Camp Devens. Hon. dis., Jan. 17, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 20 High St., Andover, Mass. 

HART, JOHN P.: 

Born, Andover, Mass.; enl., Feb. 6, 1918. Served with Co. C, 301st F. S. Bn.; 3rd Ser. S. C; 
18th Service S. C; 321 Field Signal Bn. Left U. S. Oct., 1918, returning, Apr. 1919. 
Present address — 20 High St., Andover, Mass. 

HART, WARREN EVERETT: 

Born, Sept. 29, 1895, Everett, Mass.; enl., Apr. 16, 1917 with Bat. F., 102nd U. S. F. A. 
In battles of Seicheprey, Xivray, Second Battle of Marne, St. Mihiel, Argonne-Meuse. 
Hon. dis., Apr. 29, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 97 Bowdoin St., Medford, Mass. 

HARTIGAN, DANIEL A.: 

Born, Sept. 7, 1894, Cambridge, Mass.; enl., July 17, 1917, U. S. N. R. F. At U. S. Naval 
Radio Station, Cambridge, July 17, 1917-July 15, 1918. U. S. S. Lake Benbow, July 15, 
1918-Aug. 1, 1919. Served in foreign waters from July IS, 1918 to July 1, 1919. Made 
Pharmacists Mate, 3rd cl., Jan. 1, 1918; Pharmacists Mate, 2nd. cl., June 15, 1918; Phar- 
macists Mate, 1st cl., Oct. 1, 1918; Chief Pharmacists Mate, Jan. 1, 1919. Hon. dis., Aug. 1, 
1919, 1st Naval Dist., Boston, Mass. 
Present address — 5 Hartigan Ct., Andover, Mass. 

HARTIGAN. JOHN JOSEPH: 

Born, Sept. 19, 1893, Andover, Mass.; enl. Nov. 15, 1917 as H. A. 1st cl., U. S. N. Served 
at Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston, and Harvard Radio School. Hon. dis., Dec. 18, 1918. 
Present address — Andover, Mass. 

HATCH, WILLIAM G.: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — 8 Florence St., Andover, Mass. 



186 A N D O V E R IN THE WORLD WAR 

HAYES, BARTLETT HARDING: 

Born, Jan. 7, 1876, Boston, Mass.; enl.. May 13, 1917-Aug. 15, 1917 (1st O. T. C, Camp 
Warden McLean, Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga.) Ordered to School of Trench Warfare (Harvard 
College) Aug. 15, 1917-Sept. 15, 1917. Assigned as C. O., Co. D. ,322nd Inf., 81st Div.,Sept. 
27, 1917. Assigned as Div. Inspector, Sept. 27, 1918-Oct. 7, 1918. Relieved as Div. In- 
spector and assigned as Brig. Asg't, 162 Inf. Brig. Oct. 8, 1918. Sailed from N. Y., July 31, 
1918. Arrived at Liverpool, Eng., Aug. 11, 1918 and proceeded to " Rest Camp", at Morn 
Hill, remaining there until Aug. 20. Entered Tonnere (Yonne) training area Aug. 23. Pro- 
ceeded to St. Die sector Sept. 15, which the Division held until Oct. 19, 1918 when relieved 
and made a part of the First Army. Relieved the 35th Div. in the Sommedieu Sector Nov. 
6 and became extreme right division of First Army in the Meuse-Argonne offensive. In 
fighting line when Armistice went into effect, Nov. 11, 1918. The Division entered the 
Chatillon-Sur-Seine (Cote D'or) area Dec. 1st and remained there until ordered to the 
Le Mains area. May 14, 1919. Sailed from St. Nazaire June 5 and arrived in Boston June 
13, 1919. Made Capt. Inf., Aug. 17, 1917; Major, Inf., Sept. 14, 1918, as of July 5, 1918. 
Hon. dis., June 24, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — Phillips St., Andover, Mass. 

HAYWARD, HARRY WINTHROP: 

Born, Mar. 18, 1891, Andover, Mass.; enl. Feb. 26, 1918, with 317 F. S. Bn. Overseas, 
July 8, 1918 to June 6, 1919. In battles of St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne. Hon. dis., 
June 14, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — So. Main St., Andover, Mass. 

HENAULT, AMOS: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — 7 Brechin Terrace, Andover, Mass. 

HENAULT, CHARLES: 

Enl., 1918, Camp Devens; hon. dis., 1919. 

Present address — 7 Brechin Terrace, Andover, Mass. 

HENDERSON, GEORGE CUSTER: 

Born, Sept. 18, 1890, Andover, Mass.; enl., Dec. 13, 1917, U. S. Air Service, Fort Slocum, 
N. Y. Went from Fort Slocum Dec. 14, '17 to Kelly Field. Assigned to 474 Aero Const. 
Sqd. Went from Kelly Field to Morrison, Va., and left there for France Mar. 4, '18. Ar- 
rived at St. Nazaire Mar. 21, '18. Went from there to Toul Sector. Arrived at Gumbervau, 
Mar. 29, '18. Remained there constructing field hangars, barracks, etc., until July 12, '18, 
leaving on that date for Bourches. In Marne sector until Aug. 12; St. Mihiel Sector, and 
between there and Verdun until Nov. 22, leaving for home on that date. Made Corp., Mar. 
1, 1918. Hon. dis., Jan. 31, 1919, Garden City, L. I., N. Y. 
Present address — 2 Farley St., So. Lawrence, Mass. 

HENDERSON, JOHN MARK: 

Born, Sept. 14, 1893, Andover, Mass.; enl., Dec. 15, 1917, Aviation Section, U. S. Army, 
Served from Dec. 15, 1917 to Jan. 16, 1918 in 312th Sub at Camp Dix, N. J. Transferred to 
Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga., in the 6th Co., 3rd Air Service Mechanics. Served there till 
Mar. 25, 1918, transferred to Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. C. and sailed on June 23rd for 
France. On detached duty while overseas with Hd'qtrs, Air Service Acceptance Park No. 1, 
City Fields. Made Corp., Apr. 25, 1918. Hon. dis., July 11, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 64 Red Spring Road, Andover, Mass. 



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HENDERSON, WILLIAM J.: 

Born, Dec. 24, 1 892 , Andover, Mass. ; reported May 31, 1918; assigned to F. A. Served with 
A. E. F. from July 22, 1918 to July 29, 1919; sailed from Hoboken, July 22, 1918, arriving in 
England Aug. 6. Sailed from Brest, July 19, 1919, arriving at Hoboken July 29, 1919. Took 
part in battles on the Argonne Front near the Meuse from Sept. 26 to Nov. 10. Army 
of Occupation from Nov. 22, 1918 to July 9, 1919. Hon. dis., July 29, 1919. 
Present address — Andover St , Andover, Mass. 

HERRICK, BENJAMIN: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — Ballardvale, Mass. 

HERRICK, CHARLES BENJAMIN AMBROSE: 

Born, Ballardvale, Mass.; enl., Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918, Camp Lee, Va. 
Present address — Ballardvale, Mass. 

HIBBERT, JAMES: 

Born, Sept. 14, 1895 at Andenshaw, England; enl. Sept. 21, 1917 as priv. 1st class; served 
with 302nd Machine Gun Battalion Sept. 21, 1917 to Aug. 12, 1918; Headquarters Military 
Police, Aug. 12, 1918 to July 25, 1919; sailed from U. S. July 8, 1918 and returned July 15, 
1919. Hon. dis. from Camp Devens, July 25, 1919. 

HIGGINS, LORING ABBOT: 

Born, Andover, Mass.; enl., July 6, 1918. 19th Co., C. A. C, Fort Banks, Mass., July 6 to 
20; 73rd Reg't. C. A. C, Fort Heath and Fort Strong, July 20 to Aug. 10; Fifth Replace- 
ment Unit, C. A. C, Fort Strong, Aug. 10 to time of sailing. Arrived in France Sept. 23. 
Transferred to Bat. D., 148th F. A., 66th Brig., Oct. 19, 1918. Meuse-Argonne offensive, 
Oct. 20-Nov. 11. Returned to U. S. June 15, 1919. Hon. dis., June 22, 1919, Camp 
Devens. 
Present address — 15 Chestnut St., Andover, Mass. 

HIGGINS, WILLIAM BARNETT: 

Born, Mar. 19, 1896, Andover, Mass.; enl. July 25, 1917, as 1st Lt., 102nd F. A. With 102nd 
F. A., Bat. C. and Hd'qtrs. Co., July, 1917-Nov. 1917; Hd'qtrs. 51st F. A. Brig., Nov. 
1917-Mar. 1919; Hd'qtrs. Transportation Corps A. E. F., Mar. 1919-Aug. 1919. Opera- 
tions — Chemin des Dames Sector, Feb. -Mar., 1918; Toul Sector, Mar.-June, 1918; Cham- 
pagne-Marne Defensive, July 15-18, 1918; Aisne-Marne Offensive, July 18-Aug. 4, 1918; 
St. Mihiel Offensive, Sept. 12, 13, 1918. Served as Intelligence Officer, 51st F. A. through 
all the above and also for 2 mos. as acting Brig. Adjt. Personnel Adjt. Transportation Corps, 
Mar. to Aug., 1919. Pro. to Capt., F. A .,July 30, 1918. Hon. dis., Sept. 30, 1919, Camp 
Devens. 
Present address — 15 Chestnut St., Andover, Mass. 

HILL, EDWARD J.: 

Born, Lawrence, Mass.; Medical Dept., Camp Wheeler, Georgia; reported May 27, 1918; 
assigned to Medical Department at Georgetown, Mass. Hon. dis., March 10, 1919. 
Present address — River Road, Andover, Mass. 

HILL, JOHN K.: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — 45 Pine St., Andover, Mass. 



188 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

HILTON, HERMAN JOSEPH: 

Born, Andover, Mass.; enl., Oct. 22, 1918, Bat. D., 28th Art. Hon. dis., Apr. 7, 1919, 

Fort Andrews, Mass. 

Present address — 188 No. Main St., Andover, Mass. 

HILTON, JAMES HENRY: 

Born, June 24, 1894, Andover, Mass.; enl. Aug. 5, 1917 with Bat. F., 102nd F. A., 26th Div. 
In battles of Champagne-Marne, July 15-18, 1918; Aisne-Marne, July 18-25, 1918; St. 
Mihiel, Sept. 12, 1918; Meuse-Argonne, Oct. 9-Nov. 11, 1918. Hon. dis., June 6, 1919, as 
Priv. 1st cl. 
Present address — 188 No. Main St., Andover, Mass. 

HILTON, KENNETH: 

Born, July 2, 1893, East Boston, Mass.; enl.. Mar. 29, 1918 with Bat. F., 306th F. A., 77th 
Div. Sailed overseas Apr. 24, 1918. In training camp at Camp de Soyes, Bordeaux, May 
6 to July 14. July 15 to Aug. 1, Baccarat Sector, relieving 42nd Div. Aug. 11 to Sept. 15, 
Vesle River Sector in Chateau Thierry advance. Sept. 26 to Oct. 16, Argonne Forest Drive. 
Nov. 1 to 11, Aisne-Meuse Drive. Left for U. S. Apr. 21, 1919. Hon. dis.. May 10, 1919, 
Camp Devens. 
Present address — 133 Lowell St., Andover, Mass. 

HOLDEN, WILLIAM: 

Born, Mar. 9, 1896, Andover, Mass.; enl., July 25, 1917. Co. L, 8th Mass. Inf. (Militia) 
May 14, 1916-Labor Day, 1917; Co. L., 103rd U.S. Inf., Labor Day, 1917-Aug. 15, 1918. 
Reg't'l Hd'qtrs., 103rd Inf., Aug. 15, 1918 to Apr. 28, 1919. Overseas service, Sept. 25, 
1917-Apr. 6, 1919. In Battles of Xivray, Second Battle of Marne (Chateau Thierry offen- 
sive), St. Mihiel Salient, and Meuse-Argonne. Made Corp., Jan. 1, 1919. Hon. dis., Apr. 
28, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 225 So. Main St., Andover, Mass. 

HOLT, HERBERT WARREN: 

Born,Nov.5,1897, Andover, Mass.; enl. Apr. 7, 1917 as App. Sea. Bumpkin Island; Receiv- 
ing Ship at Norfolk, Nov. 5, 1917; U. S. S. McNeal, Dec. 20, 1917; U. S. S. Carib, Jan. 15. 
1918. On duty sailing between U. S. and France. Pro. to Sea. 2nd cl., Oct. 21; to Sea., Nov. 
5, 1917; to Q. M., 2nd., Jan. 15, 1918. Released from active duty Feb. 6, 1919, Bay Ridge, 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Present address, Andover, Mass. 

HUBBERT, JAMES W.: 

Born, England; enl.. Mar. 28, 1918, as Sapper with Canadian Engineers. Served on the 
Hindenberg Line Sector. In France from Jan. 21, 1919 to Mar. 22, 1919. Hon. dis., Apr. 
1, 1919, Montreal, Canada. 
Present address — 18 Essex St., Andover, Mass. 

HUDGINS, WALTER WAITE: 

Born, Dec. 10, 1891, Lawrence, Mass.; enl. Sept. 22, 1917 at Lawrence; 4th Co., 20th En- 
gineers, Nov. 26, 1917 to May 19, 1919. Hon. dis., May 29, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — Andover, Mass. 

HUGHES, FRANK C: 

Born, Dec. 1, 1888, Springfield, Mass.; enl., June 26, 1917. Co. L., 8th Mass. N. G., July 25, 
1917-Aug. 28, 1917; Co. L., 103rd U. S. Inf., 26th Div., Aug. 28, '17-July 7, '18. In battles 
at Chemin-des-Dames, Xivray, Marvoisin, Chateau Thierry. Hon. dis., July 15, 1919, as 
Priv. 1st cl., Camp Devens. 
Present address — Baker's Lane, Andover, 



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HULME, FREDERICK ROBERT: 

Born, Apr. 22, 1897, Andover, Mass.; enl. May 16, 1918 as Priv. Istcl. 1st Co., 4th O.T.C., 
Camp Devens, May 16-July 29, 1918; 6th Co., 2nd Bn., C. O. T. S., Camp Lee, Va., July 
29-Aug. 26, 1918; Co. H., 11th Bn., Inf. Replacement & Training Camp, Camp Lee, Sept. 4- 
Sept. 8; Co, C, 19th Bn., Sept. 8-Oct. 30; Co. E, 8th Bn., Oct. 30-Nov. 29; Co. L, 9th Bn., 
Nov. 29-Dec. 7. Com. 2nd Lt. Inf., Aug. 28, 1918. Hon. dis., Dec. 7, 1918, Camp Lee. 
Present address — 93 Main St., Andover, Mass. 

HULME, LILLIAN: 

Born, in Scotland; Army Nurse Corps. ; reported Oct. 9, 1917 at Camp Devens; served with 
A. E. F. 4 months. Sailed from Hoboken, Sept. 14, 1918, arriving at Southampton, Eng., 
Sept. 21. Sailed from Liverpool, Eng., Jan. 1919, arriving at New York, Jan. 1919. Hon. 
dis., Jan, 25, 1919, 
Present address — 8 Chapman Ave., Andover, Mass. 

HUMPHREYS, IRVING Z.: 

Born, 1897, Lawrence, Mass.; enl. Sept. 3, 1918 in 15th Co. 4th Battalion, Depot Brigade, 
Camp Devens; Nov. 22, 1918, transferred to Provost Guard Co. of Infantry, Camp Devens; 
hon. dis., April 19, 1919. 
Present address — 66 Central St., Andover, Mass. 

HUTCHESON, DOUGLAS WALLACE: 

Born, Nov. 10, 1894, Andover, Mass.; enl. Dec. 15, 1917 as Musician. U. S. Naval Trans- 
port Service — on board U. S. S. De Kalb. Made twelve successful trips between March 
1918 and June 28, 1919. Trained at Newport, R. I. Transferred to Philadelphia Navy 
Yard, then to Newport News, Va. Entered Bordeaux, St. Nazaire, Brest, and Liverpool, 
Eng. Destroyed a floating mine between Liverpool and Brest. Hon. dis., July 24, 1919, 
as Musician, 2nd cl., Hingham, Mass. 
Present address — 89 Summer St., Andover, Mass. 

HUTCHESON, ROBERT: 

Born, Arbroath, Scotland; enl. July 24, 1917; assigned to 236th Highlanders at Frederic- 
ton, N. B. Transferred to No. 1 Co., 1st Division, Canadian Forces. Sailed from Vancouver, 
Aug. 1917, arriving at Vladivostok, Sept. 1918. Sailed from Vladivostok, June 6, 1919, ar- 
riving at Vancouver, June 23, 1919. Took part in battles all through the Siberian Territory 
Offensive. Hon. dis., July 8, 1919. 
Present address — P. O. Ave., Andover, Mass. 

INGRAM, ELBERT C: 

Born, Lawrence, Mass.; French Aviation, Phillips Acad. Alumni Unit; volunteered June 
25, 1917; sailed from U. S. June 25, 1917, arriving at Bordeaux July 4, 1917; sailed from Port 
overseas Aug., 1917, arriving in New York Aug., 1917. Hon. dis., Aug. 1, 1917. 
Present address — 43 Salem St., Andover, Mass. 

INGRAM, GEORGE E.: 

2nd Training Camp, Plattsburg from Aug. 25 to Nov. 25, 1917; reported for duty Dec. 15, 
1917 at Leon Spring, Texas; assigned to 672nd Aero Squadron, Mar. 16, 1918; transferred to 
338th Aero Squadron, June 28, 1918; sailed from U. S. June, 1918; returned Dec. 18, 1918; 
hon. dis., Jan. 3, 1919. 
Present address — Salem St., Andover, Mass. 

JACKSON, ROBERT E.: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — 165 No. Main St., Andover, Mass. 



190 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

JENKINS, ARTHUR KIMBALL: 

Born, Aug. 21, 1892, Andover, Mass.; enl. Nov. 11, 1917 as Seaman, 2nd cl., U. S. N. R. F. 
Bumpkin Island Training Ship, Nov. 11, 1917. Transferred to Wakefield Rifle Range, Jan. 
20, 1918 and there made "Sharpshooter. " Transferred to Boston Section, Commonwealth 
Pier, Feb. 10, 1918; Boston Section, Lockwood's Basin, East Boston, May 15, 1918. Served 
as Naval Port Guard from Feb. 10, 1918 to Dec. 21, 1918. Hon. dis., Dec. 21, 1918, Lock- 
wood's Basin. 
Present address — 109 Elm St., Andover, Mass. 

JEWETT, FREDERICK C. : 

Born, Lawrence, Mass.; enl. April 1, 1917; assigned to U. S. N. R. F.; U. S. S. Nebraska at 
Boston, Mass; transferred to Naval Operating Base, Hampton Roads, Va.; Virginia Beach, 
Rifle Range, Va. Made three convoy trips and special detail trip to Uruguay. Released 
Feb. 18, 1919. 
Present address — 25 Highland Road, Andover, Mass. 

JEWETT, WILLIAM SEBASTIAN: 

Born, Oct. 24, 1891, Lawrence, Mass.; enl.. May 9, 1917. Recruit Co. B., Ft. Slocum, May 
10-May 25, 1918, 8th Aero Squadron; Ft. Sam Houston (Kelly Field), San Antonio, Tex., 
May 27-Sept. 1, 1917. Transferred with 8th squadron from San Antonio to Selfridge Field, 
Mt. Clemens, Mich., June 29, 1917. Transferred to Aero squadrons at Selfridge Field in 
order named: — 40th, 41st, 87th, 96th, 157th; Flying School Detachment A, B, C, D, and E. 
(These transfers were made in order to keep men who had enlisted at the outbreak of the war 
on this side as instructors, as the various squadrons were sent overseas.) Made Corp. Oct. 
1, 1917; Sgt., Oct. 30, 1917; Master Signal Electrician, Dec. 24, 1917; 2nd Lt., Aug. 15, 1918; 
1st Lt., Jan. 3, 1919. Had collision in air at height of 3,000 ft., with another plane. Neither 
could be controlled, but, although both planes were reduced to kindling wood, the only in- 
jury resulting was a broken nose which the pilot of the lower plane sustained. Hon. dis., 
Jan. 22, 1919. 
Present address — c-o The Washington Times, Washington, D. C. 

JONES, SEWELL ARTHUR: 

Born, Sept. 11, 1899, Whitman, Mass.; enl., Oct. 10, 1918 — S. A. T. C, Amherst College, 
Amherst, Mass. Made Cadet Sgt., Nov. 1, 1918. Hon. dis., Dec. 14, 1918, Amherst, Mass, 
Present address — Psi U. House, Amherst, Mass. 

JOHNSON, ALBERT HORACE: 

Born, London, England; enl., July, 1917, as Machinists Mate. Served with construction 
corps at Boston Navy Yard until discharged. Hon. dis., Aug., 1919, Boston Navy Yard- 
Present address — Gould Road, Andover, Mass. 

JOHNSON, ARTHUR KIMBALL: 

Born, Nov. 8, 1892,Peabody, Mass.; enl. March 29, 1918; assigned to 7th Co., Depot Brigade, 
and later to Medical Department at Camp Devens, Mass.; laboratory worker at Base Hos- 
pital, Camp Devens; 73^ months inactive service, and 23^ months indefinite furlough; 
transferred from Medical Dept. to Infantry unassigned Nov. 13, 1918, for the purpose of 
teaching Chemistry at the S. A. T. C. , Lowell Textile School, Lowell, Mass. Hon. dis., 
Feb. 3, 1919 from Camp Devens. 
Present address — Andover, Mass. 

JOHNSON, GUSTAV: 

Born, Hoja, Sweden; 39th Field Artillery, Battery E. Inducted July 30, 1918; assigned to 
39th Field Artillery at Alhambra. Hon. dis., Feb. 6, 1919, from Camp Kearney, Cal. 
Present address — 20 Harding St., Andover, Mass. 



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JUDGE, GEORGE HOMER: 

Born, Apr. 2, 1889, Peterboro, Ont., Canada; enl., Aug. 1918 — Wentworth Institute Train- 
ing Detachment. Hon. dis., Dec. 4, 1918, Boston, Mass. 
Present address — 7 Elm Court, Andover, Mass. 

JULLY, DAVID LEO: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — Ballardvale, Mass. 

KASABIAN, SOOREN A. : 

Born, Armenia, July 16, 1896; enl. July 24, 1918 in Co. C, 42nd Inf.; pro. corp., Apr. 

12, 1919; hon. dis.. May 20, 1919. 

Present address — 81 Chandler Road, Andover, Mass. 

KEEFE, WALTER L.: 

Born, Andover, Mass. Naval Reserve Force; enl. April 7, 1917; reported June 15, 1917; 
assigned to Training Station at Bumpkins' Island; transferred to Instructor, Rifle Range, 
Annapolis. Hon. dis., Jan. 2, 1919. 
Present address — 44 High St., Andover, Mass. 

KEITH, JOHN BAXTER: 

Born, Dec. 2, 1896, Arbroath, Scotland; enl., June 3, 1918, with 19 Co., Fort Banks, Boston. 
Left Camp Merritt, N. J. for overseas Sept. 22, 1918; arrived at St. Nazaire, Oct. 6, 1918. 
At Angers, France, with the H. A. S. and the G. H. Q. detachments. Hon. dis., May 13, 
1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 40 Stevens St., Andover, Mass. 

KEITH, JOSEPH, JR.: 

Born, Arbroath, Scotland; enl., Jan. 31, 1918, with the 1st Depot Bn., 2nd C. O. R., 
C. E. F., at Toronto, Ontario. Left Canada for England Feb. 26, 1918, arriving Mar. 4. 
Served four mos. in England and landed in France late in July and entered the 78th Bn. 
Fought in battles of Arras and Cambria. Wounded in left leg, Sept. 27, 1919, in Cambria 
drive. Hon. dis.. Mar. 18, 1919, Toronto, Ont., Canada. 
Present address — 38 Stevens St., Andover, Mass. 

KENNELLY, DANIEL J. 

Born, Andover, Mass.; enl. Co. L, 8th Mass. Inf., Apr. 7, 1917; dis. Aug. 4, 1917 — reason, 
dependency. Enl. in Navy Dec. 12, 1917; hon. dis. Feb. 13, 1919; mine layer; sailed from 
Newport, R. I.,Mayl2, 1918;arnvingat Inverness, Scotland, May 26, 1918;sailedfromPort- 
land, Eng., Dec. 17, 1918, arriving at Newport News, Va. Dec. 30, 1918. 
Present address — 14 Elm Court, Audover, Mass. 

KIDDER, ALFRED VINCENT: 

Born, Oct. 28, 1885, Marquette, Mich. ; enl., Aug. 27, 1917 as 1st Lt., Inf. Officers Training 
Camp, Presidio of San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 27-Nov. 27, 1917. 364th Inf., Dec. 15, 1917- 
Apr. 1, 1918; Hd'qtrs, 182 Inf. Brig., Apr. 1, 1918-Aug. 25, 1918; Hd'qtrs, 91 Div., Aug. 26, 
1918-Apr. 16, 1919. Served in battles of St. Mihiel, Argonne-Meuse, and Ypres Lys of- 
fensives. Pro. to Capt., Oct. 27, 1918. Received Chevalier of Legion of Honor (French). 
Awarded Croix de Guerre. Hon. dis., Apr. 16, 1919, Camp Dix, N. J. 
Present address — 215 Main St., Andover, Mass. 



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KILLACKY, GEORGE ISLES: 

Born, July 11, 1896, Andover, Mass.; enl., Mar. 12, 1918 as Seaman, U. S. N. R. F.'|Did 
convoy duty from June 1 to Oct. 12. Hon. dis., Dec. 3, 1918, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Present address — 25 Essex St., Andover, Mass. 

KIMBALL, ALEC JAMES: 

Born, Tyngsboro, Mass.; inducted Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — Osgood Road, Andover, Mass. 

KIMBALL, CHARLES CARLETON: 

Born, Mar. 2, 1891, Andover, Mass.; enl., July 24, 1918; Hd'qtrs. Detachment, 12th Div., 
Camp Devens, Mass. Made Sgt., Jan. 24, 1918. Hon. dis., Jan. 31, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 50 School St., Andover, Mass. 

KNIPE, WILSON, JR.: 

Born, Andover, Mass.; inducted Nov. 9, 1918; assigned to Camp Lee, Va. Hon. dis., Nov. 

14, 1918. 

Present address — 7 Walnut Ave., Andover, Mass. 

KOCH, FRED W., JR.: 

Born, Lawrence, Mass.; enl. Sept 4, 1918; assigned to 151st Depot Brigade at Camp Dev- 
ens. Hon. dis., Dec. 11, 1918. 
Present address — River Road, Andover, Mass. 

KUEHNER, DAVID ALEXANDER: 

Born, East Douglas, Mass., Jan. 27, 1918; enl. March 20, 1918; member of gun crew of 
U. S. S. Cruiser Minneapolis from April 30, 1918 to Nov. 30, 1918, sailing and convoying 
from New York to Brest; stationed at Hingham, U. S. N. T. C. March 20 to April 7, 1918; 
Wakefield Rifle Range April 7, to April 18; Bumpkins Island till April 30; transferred to 
U. S. S. Minneapolis; to Brooklyn Armed Guard Barracks Nov. 30; hon. dis. from Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., Dec. 15, 1918. 
Present address — 7 School St., No. Andover, Mass. 

KUEHNER, FREDERICK JAMES: 

Born, June 24, 1892, East Douglas, Mass.; enl., Apr. 15, 1918 as Seaman, 2nd cl., U. S. N. 
R. F. U. S. N. T. C, Hingham, Mass., Apr. 21-May 14, 1918; Rifle Range, Wakefield, 
Mass., May 14-May 24, 1918; Navy Yard, Charlestown, Mass., May 24, 1918-June 2, 1919, 
Pro. to Yeo., 3rd cl.. May 1, 1918; Yeo., 2nd cl., June 1, 1918; Yeo., 1st cl., Oct. 1, 1918; 
Chief Yeo., Apr. 1, 1919. Recommended for Ensign School at Pelham Bay but signing of 
Armistice prevented his going. Hon. dis., June 2, 1919, Boston, Mass. 
Present address — 614 Andover St., Lawrence, Mass. 

KYDD, WENDELL HARRISON: 

Born, Aug. 31, 1892, Andover, Mass.; enl., April 27, 1918; assigned to Provost Guard Co. 
of Inf. at Camp Devens, Mass.; hon. dis., at Camp Devens, Sept. 18, 1919. 

KYLE, THOMAS J.: 

Born, Morrisville, Pa.; enl. May 27, 1918; assigned to Camp Dental Infirmary at Camp 
Upton, N.Y. Received commission of 1st lieutenant, Feb. 5, 1919. Hon. dis., Jan. 15,1919. 
Present address — 75 Elm St., Andover, Mass. 



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KYLE, WILLIAM F.: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — 11 Elm Court, Andover, Mass. 

LARKIN, ELDRED WILSON: 

Born, Sept. 18, 1897, West Berlin, Mass.; enl., Sept. 18, 1917 with Bat. F, 102nd F. A. Left 
for France Sept. 21, 1917;returned Apr. 10, 1919. In battles of Seicheprey, Xivray, Second 
Battle of Marne, St. Mihiel, and Argonne-Meuse. Made Corp., June, 1918; Sgt., Nov. 1919. 
Gassed, July 18, 1918. Hon. dis., Apr. 29, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 155 Chestnut St., Andover, Mass. 

LARKIN, HAROLD EARL: 

Born, July 30, 1898, West Berlin, Mass.; enl., Apr. 16, 1917; Bat. F, 102nd F. A. Left for 
France Sept. 21, 1917; returned Apr. 10, 1919. In battles of Seicheprey, Xivray, Second 
Battle of Marne, St. Mihiel, and Argonne-Meuse. Made Priv., 1st cl., Apr., 1919; Corp., 
Dec, 1918. Hon. dis., Apr. 29, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 49 Summer St., Haverhill, Mass. 

LAWSON, EDWARD ROBERT, 2nd.: 

Born, May 17, 1892, Andover, Mass.; enl., Apr. 16, 1917; Bat. F., 102nd F. A., 26th Div 
Feb. 2, 1918, sent to Chemin des Dames front; in April on the Toul front; in July on the 
Chateau Thierry front driving enemy back to Chemin des Dames line near old positions; 
St. Mihiel front near Les Eparges; Sept. 1 to Oct., near Les Eparges. At Death Valley, 
Verdun, holding former German positions. Oct. 16, leaving there Nov. 13, two days after 
Armistice. Pro. to Gunner Corp. of 75 mm. gun, Jan. 12, 1918. Gassed twice. Hon. dis., 
Apr. 29, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 35 Maple Ave., Andover, Mass. 

LAWSON, WALTER SCOTT: 

Born, Nov. 14, 1896, Andover, Mass.; enl., Apr. 16, 1917, in the Army; June 3, 1918, in the 
Navy. With Bat. F., 102nd F. A., 26th Div., at Boxford, Apr. 16, 1917 to July 31, 1917. 
Hon. dis. by reason of disability and entered Navy. Passed examination and test for expert 
rifleman on Wakefield range. Hon. dis., Jan. 21, 1919, Cambridge, Mass. 
Present address — 303 Brooks Ave., Venice, Calif. 

LEARY, ARTHUR J.: 

Born, Andover, Mass.; inducted Oct. 19, 1918; assigned to 14th Co. at Ft. McKinley; 
transferred to Battery B, 29th Artillery, C. A. C, Ft. Williams. Hon. dis., Dec. 21, 1918. 
Present address — Highland Road, Andover, Mass. 

LeBLANC, MURRAY J.: 

Born, June 3, 1892, Yarmouth, N. S.; enl., Feb. 18, 1918. At Ft. Slocum, N. Y., 4th Co., 
Feb. 18 to Feb. 27; Feb. 27 to May 10, 1918 at Washington, D. C, with 42nd Engrs. Sailed 
for France May 10, returned May 30, 1919. In battles of Chateau Thierry and Verdun. 
Hon. dis., June 12, 1919, Camp Devens, Mass. 
Present address — West Newton, Mass. 

LEVI, JOSEPH: 

Enl., April, 1917 in Co. L, 104th Inf.; sailed overseas, Sept. 1917; in all battles of 26th Div.; 
returned, April, 1919; hon. dis., April 29, 1919. 
Present address — Andover, Mass. 



194 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

LEWIS, ARTHUR RAND: 

Born, Mar. 13, 1895, Weston, Mass.; enl., Nov. 22, 1917, in Signal Enlisted Reserve Corps 
as Priv., 1st cl. M. I. T. Aviation Ground School, Nov. 22, 1917-Jan. 5, 1918; Cornell 
Univ. Aviation Ground School, Jan. 7-Mar. 7, 1918; Taliaferro Flying Field, Hicks, Texas, 
Mar. 13-May 5, 1918; Barron Flying Field, Everman, Texas, May5-July 12, 1918; Camp Dick, 
Dallas, Texas, July 12-July 30, 1918; Post Flying Field, Fort Sill, Okla., Aug. 2,-Sept. 7, 
1918; Taliaferro Flying Field, Hicks, Texas, Sept. 9-Oct. 9, 1918; Call Flying Field, Wichita 
Falls, Texas., Oct. 11, 1918-Jan. 3, 1919. Made 2nd Lt., Air Service Aeronautics, Barron 
Field, Jan. 22, 1918. Served as Pilot Instructor at various flying fields as enumerated above 
after being commissioned at Barron Field. Flying time — 300 hours; distance flown — 
12,000 miles; maximum altitude attained — 2 miles. Hon. dis., Jan. 3, 1918, Call Field, 
Wichita Falls, Texas. 
Present address — 75 Central St., Andover, Mass. 

LEWIS, EDWIN FRANCIS, 2nd: 

Born, Jan. 31, 1897, Andover, Mass.; enl., July 9, 1918 as Seaman, 1st cl., U. S. N.T. C. 
Hingham, Mass.; Navy Yard, Boston, Mass.; U. S. S. Margaret, Section Base Six. Hon. 
dis., Aug. 23, 1919, Boston Navy Yard. 
Present address — Hidden Road, Andover, Mass. 

LEWIS, ERNEST M.: 

Born, Beverly, Mass.; enl. May 27, 1918; assigned to Medical Dept., U. S. Gen. Hosp. No. 6 
at Fort McPherson, Ga. Hon. dis., Aug. 14, 1918. 
Present address — 7 Summer St., Andover, Mass. 

LINDSAY, CARL NELSON: 

Born, May 24, 1894, Andover, Mass.; enl., Apr. 16th, 1917; Bat. F., 102nd F. A., 26th Div. 
Went overseas Sept. 25, 1917, returned Apr. 11, 1919. In battles of Seicheprey, Xivray, 
Second Battle of Marne, St. Mihiel, and Verdun. Made Corp., Apr. 23, 1919. Hon. dis., 
Apr. 29, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 15 Walnut St., Newtonville, Mass. 

LINDSAY, DOUGLAS CLARENCE: 

Born, May 27, 1888; enl., Dec. 13, 1917; assigned to U. S. N. T., Station at Hingham 
transferred toBumpkin Island, then to Boston Section Base; U. S. S. Shad; Decommission- 
ing Board; promoted from Seaman, 2nd cl. toCoxswain, Oct. 1,1918; hon. dis., fromU.S. S. 
Receiving Ship, Boston, July 14, 1919. 
Present address — Andover, Mass. 

LINDSAY, LEWIS P.: 

Born, Dec. 24, 1890, Andover, Mass.; enl., Jan. 1, 1918; Bat. E, 308th F. A. Sailed May 26, 
1918; left Marseilles, May 8, 1919. Made Corp. June 16, 1918. Hon. dis.. May 26, 1919, 
Camp Dix, N. J. 
Present address — 820 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Mass. 

LINDSAY, RALPH: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 

LIVINGSTON, CLINTON RICHARD: 

Born, Hillsboro, N. H.; enl., June 5, 1918, as Electrician. U. S. N. T. Camp, Hingham, 
Mass., Oct. 22- Nov. 16, 1918; U. S. Receiving Ship at Boston, Nov. 16-Dec. 22, 1918; 
Overseas Dec. 22, 1918 with U. S. S. Cohassett, returning Mar. 3, 1919. Hon. dis.. Mar. 13, 
1919, U. S. Receiving Ship at Boston. 
Present address — 3 Temple Place, Andover, Mass. 



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LIVINGSTON, HAROLD SAMUEL: 

Born, Apr. 24, 1899, Hillsboro, N. H.; enl., June 23, 1919, as App. Sea. U. S. N. R. F., active 
service, from Oct. 23, 1918 to June 23, 1919. N. T. C, Bumpkin Island; N. T. S., Hingham, 
Mass. — Boston Section Base. Hon. dis., June 23, 1919, Boston, as Ship's cook, 3rd cl. 
Present address — 3 Temple Place, Andover, Mass. 

LORD, CHARLES H.: 

Born, Andover, Mass.; enl. Dec. 4, 1917; assigned to Naval Reserve Force at Charlestown 
Navy Yard; made 4 trips between July 5, 1918 and Dec. 6, 1919, on U. S. S. Solas and U. S. 
S. Mercy, both Hospital Ships; released Jan. 9, 1919. 
Present address — Elm Court, Andover, Mass. 

LOW, JAMES: 

Born, Oct. 3, 1895, Arbroath, Scotland; enl., Jan. 31, 1918, as Bn. Signaller, with the 58th 
Canadian Bn. Overseas, Feb. 14, 1918. Served in England, France, and Belgium. Hon. 
dis., Apr. 1, 1919, Toronto, Canada. 
Present address — 35 Essex St., Andover, Mass. 

LOW, WILLIAM: 

Born, Andover, Mass.; enl. July 25, 1917; assigned to 8th Mass. Nat. Guard at Lynnfield; 
transferred to Co. L, 103rd Infantry; sailed from Hoboken, Sept. 27, 1917, arriving at Liver- 
pool, Oct. 9, 1917; sailed from Brest April, 1919, arriving at Boston April, 1919; engaged in 
the battles of Xivray, Chateau-Thierry, St. Mihiel, and Argonne. Hon. dis. April 28, 1919. 
Present address — 13 Brechin Terrace, Andover, Mass. 

LOWE, PHILIP RUSSELL: 

Born, June 15, 1897, Andover, Mass.; enl.. May 23, 1917, as Sgt. Chauffeur, Motor Truck 
Co. No. 52, May 23, 1917 to Oct. 7, 1918, Camp MacArthur, Texas. 7th Service Co., 
Signal Corps, Oct. 7, 1918 to July 10, 1919, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Made Chauffeur, 
Signal Corps, Apr. 1, 1919. Hon. dis., July 10, 1919, Fort Sam Houston. 
Present address — 33 Summer St., Andover, 



LUNDGREN, HENRY JAMES: 

Born, Nov. 12, 1895, Andover; enl.. Mar. 11, 1918, Fort Oglethorpe; trans., June, to Camp 
Jackson, and July to Camp Hill, Va.; ar., Brest, Aug., and at Toul, Aug. 27; as. to various 
Evacuation Hospitals as Dental Ass't; at Metternich and Coblenz, Germany; St. Mihiel 
Offensive and Meuse-Argonne Offensive; pro. private 1st cl. and corp'l; hon. dis.. May 20, 
1919, Camp Upton, N. Y. 
Present address — 45 Greig St., Rochester, N. Y. 

LYLE, HERBERT HENRY: 

Born, June 19, 1886, Andover, Mass.; enl., Mar. 28, 1918. 151st Depot Brig., 7th Co., 
Camp Devens, Mar. 28-Apr. 16, 1918; Co. C, 520th Engrs., Camp Devens., Apr. 16-May 27, 
1918; Co. I, 302nd Inf., 76th Div., Camp Devens, May 27-Sept. 4, 1918. Served in France 
with 2nd Pioneer Inf. till Oct. 3, 1918; transferred to 3rd Motor Transportation Corps, St. 
Nazaire, until Nov. 14, 1918. Hd'qtrs 1st Army Corps, Base Section No. 2, Bordeaux, 
France, Nov. 14, 1918 to Apr. 1919. 568th Casual Co. until May 27, 1919. Hon. dis., 
May 27, 1919, Mitchell Field, L. I., N. Y. 
Present address — So. Main St., Andover, Mass. 

LYNCH, MICHAEL JOSEPH: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — 2 Harding St., Andover, Mass, 



196 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

LYNCH, WILLIAM JOSEPH: 

Born, Mar. 6, 1902, Andover, Mass.; enl., Feb. 12, 1918, with 1st Que. Bn. in Montreal. 
Went immediately overseas. Served in 23rd Res. Bn. from Mar. until June, 1918. Trans- 
ferred at that time to 24th Bn. In battles of Arras, Amiens, Cambrai, Cheuse, Belleau 
Woods, and Chacourt. Served three months in Germany after the signing of the Armistice. 
Wounded in left arm, right ankle, and left heel. Andover's youngest war veteran. (Ran 
away from home at the age of 15). Hon. dis.. May 19, 1919, Peel St., Montreal, Quebec, 
Canada. 
Present address — Vine St., Andover, Mass. 

MacCOUBRIE, ROBERT JAMES: 

Born, Aug. 4, 1898, Belfast, Ireland; enl., November 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 

McCABE, BERNARD L.: 

Enl., 1918, with McLean Kilties, Canada. 

MCCARTHY, JOSEPH J.: 

Born, June 21, 1887, Andover, Mass.; enl.. May 1, 1918, as Corp., 303rd Inf., 76th Div., 
Co. C, Aug. 8, 1918-Aug. 26, 1918; Q. M. C, 76th Div., Hd'qtrs. Det., Aug. 27, 1918-Mar. 
4, 1919; Q. M. C, 501st Co., Mar. 8, 1919-July 22, 1919. Left U. S. July 5, 1918; returned 
Aug. 9, 1919. Hon. dis., Mitchel Field, Camp Mills, L. I., N. Y. 
Present address — 12 Wolcott Ave., Andover, Mass. 

MCCARTHY, OLIN BERNARD: 

Enl. April 9, 1917 at Boston; hon. dis., March 18, 1918, S. C. D. 
Present address — 42 Red Spring Road, Andover, Mass. 

McCarthy, william john: 

Born, Oct. 28, 1895, enl., Dec. 15, 1917, Hd'qtrs. Co. 55th Reg't., C. A. C. Overseas from 
May 25, 1918 to Jan. 22, 1919. 2nd Battle of Marne; operations on Vesle, Aug. 9, to Sept. 
8, 1918; Meuse-Argonne offensive, Sept. 25-Nov. 11, 1918. Hon. dis., Feb. 9, 1919, Fort 
H. G. Wright, N. Y. 
Present address — 26 Pearson St., Andover, Mass. 

McCOLLUM, FREDERICK WILLIAM: 

Born, Aug. 11, 1899, Boston, Mass.; enl. Nov. 11, 1918; Bat. F, 28th Art. C. A. C, Fort 
Revere, Mass. Hon. dis., Dec. 14, 1918, Fort Revere. 
Present address — Lincoln St., Andover, Mass. 

McCURDY, ALLAN MORRILL: 

Born, Sept. 1, 1886, Andover, Mass.; enl., Nov. 1, 1918; A. S. A. P. No. 4 (Aviation). 
Hon. dis., Feb. 1, 1919, Plattsburg, N. Y. 
Present address — Owyhee, Nevada. 

McCURDY, SIDNEY MORRILL: 

Born, May 21, 1881, Andover, Mass.; com., Apr. 25, 1917, as Capt., Medical Corps; with 
A. E. F.; received regimental citation, July 18-22, 1918, at Soissons; hon. dis., Apr. 8, 1919. 

McDERMITT, WILLIAM GORDON: 

Born, July 13, 1896, Andover, Mass.; enl., Aug. 27, 1918; Bat. B, 14th Reg., F. A., Camp 
Jackson, Columbia, S. C. Hon. dis., Jan. 10, 1919, Camp Devens, Mass. 
Present address — 12 Bartlet St., Andover, Mass. 

Mcdonald, Bernard leo: 

Born, Sept. 16, 1890, Andover, Mass.; enl.. Mar. 1, 1918 as Chief Yeoman, U. S. N. R.F., 
Fore River Ship Yards, Quincy, Mass. Hon. dis., Dec. 27, 1918, Quincy, Mass. 
Present address — 63 Elm St., Andover, Mass. 



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MACDONALD, DAVID: 

Born, Nov. 23, 1890, Brechin, Scotland; enl., Sept. 21, 1917. B Co., 302nd M. G. B., Sept. 
21, 1917-NOV.9, 1918; Camp Devens, Sept. 21, 1917-June26, 1918. 1st Army Corps School, 
Gondercourt, July 14, 1918-Aug. 20, 1918. Lunery Cher, Aug. 24, 1918-Nov. 8, 1918. B 
Co. 147, M.G. B., Selles Sur Cher, Nov. 9, 1918-Jan. 1, 1919; Mar. 20, 1919, St. Romain; 
Mar. 20, 1919-Apr. 5, 1919, Noyers; Apr. 5, 1919-Apr. 19, 1919, 158th Engrs.; La Pallice, 
Apr. 21-June 16, 1919. Pro. to Corp., Nov. 15, 1917; Sgt., Jan. 15, 1918. Hon. dis., June 
16, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 6 Temple Place, Andover, Mass. 

McGINLEY, MICHAEL: 

Born, Lowell, Mass.; 2nd Class Seaman, U. S. Navy; enl. March 9, 1918; assigned to receiv- 
ing ship at Norfolk, Va.; transferred to Cherry Stone Island, U. S. S. Sonnard, to receiving 
ship Philadelphia; Receiving Ship Paulliac, France, to Archcachon, to Pelham Bay Park, 
N. Y. Released March 12, 1919. 
Present address — 192 No. Main St., Andover, Mass. 

McGOVERN, H. V. 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 

Present address — North St., R. F. D. No. 1, Andover, Mass. 

McGRATH, MICHAEL: 

Born, Killarney, Ireland; inducted July 30, 1918; assigned to 330th Guard and Fire Co., 

Camp Mills, L. I. Hon. dis., Jan. 8, 1919. 

Present address — 3 Hartigan Court, Andover, Mass. 

McGregor, JOHN: 

Enl., 1918, Camp Dix; hon. dis., three weeks later, S. C. D. 

McKEE, ALFRED H.: 

Born in Ireland; enl. April 16, 1917; assigned to Battery F, 102nd F. A. at Boxford; made 
corporal June, 1917, and sergt. July, 1917; sailed from Hoboken Sept. 23, 1917, arriving at 
St. Nazaire Oct. 5; sailed from Brest, France, March 31, 1919, arriving at Boston April 10, 
1919; served with A. E. F. 18 months; in the following battles: Seicheprey, St. Mihiel, 
Toul, Chateau-Thierry, Argonne, 2nd Marne, and Verdun. Hon. dis., April 29, 1919. 
Present address — 74 Maple Ave., Andover, Mass. 

McKEE, ANDREW BELL: 

Born in Ireland; inducted Aug. 27, 1918; assigned to Co. D, 5th Regiment Engineers, at 
Camp Jackson, S. C. Hon. dis., Jan. 2, 1919. 
Present address — 46 High St., Andover, Mass. 

McKEE, WILLIAM: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — Andover, Mass. 

MACKENZIE, GEORGE: 

Born, Sept. 30, 1889, Dundee, Scotland; enl. Jan. 30, 1918, as Baker, 2nd cl., U. S. N. R.F. 
Commissary School, Rec. Ship, Boston, U. S. S. Yacoma. Made Baker, 1st cl., May 1, 
1918; hon. dis., 1919. 
Present address — 84 Poor St., Andover, Mass. 



198 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

McLAUGHLAN, ALEXANDER: 

Enl. June 20, 1917 in Canadian Expeditionary Force, 8th Field Ambulance; transferred to 
26th Batt. Infantry, Aug. 1917; fought at Arras and Amiens; wounded in action; hon. dis., 
Jan. 29, 1919. 
Present address — 53 Red Spring Road, Andover, Mass. 

MacLEISH, JOHN: 

Born, Aug. 24, 1885, Dundee, Scotland; enl., Oct. 3, 1917. Served with 18th Co., Depot 
Brigade, at Camp Devens. Hon. dis., Dec. 4, 1918, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 40 James St., Hartford, Conn. 

MacLEISH, NORMAN KING: 

Born, Feb. 17, 1898 in Dundee, Scotland; entered the service Feb. 16, 1915 as Lc. Copl. 
Sailed from America Feb. 2, 1915; left camp in Scotland April 1st, was drafted from the 3rd 
to the 2nd Battalion Cameron Hlrs., and took part in the last two days of the second battle 
of Ypres. April 10 to Aug. 15, 1915, defence of Armentieres; Aug. 26 relieved theFrench at 
Cappy. Left France Nov. 26, arriving at Salonica, Dec. 12, 1915. Was in numerous small 
battles there until Aug. 1917 when was forced to leave for home by an attack of malaria, 
followed by pneumonia. Was in the Scottish Convalescent Camp when Armistice was 
signed. Served as stretcherbearer from April 2nd to Nov. 26, 1915. Received a 1914- 
1915 Star. Went from Ballavonan Camp, Ireland to Repatriation Camp, Winchester, 
England, March 10, and left for America April 1st; hon. dis., 1919. 

McMEEKIN, JAMES: 

Born, Nov. 17, 1869, Carrickfirgus, Ireland; enl., Jan. 20, 1917; assigned to 8th Battalion C, 
Railroad Troops; served in Canada, England, and France; returned to U.S., Dec. 19, 1918; 
hon. dis., Jan. 7, 1919. 
Present address — 30 Salem St., Andover, Mass. 

MACONOCHIE, GEORGE: 

Born, Apr. 24, 1889, Dundee, Scotland; enl., Dec. 14, 1917. At Fort Slocum Dec. 14 to 
Dec. 17. Recruit Brig., Kelly Field, San Antonio, Tex., Oct. 22, 1917 to Jan. 8, 1918. Waco, 
Tex., in 47th provincial aero squadron, Jan. 9-Feb. 20; transferred to the 77th Aero Service 
Squadron Feb. 21st. Served at Ft. Worth, Te.x., in the 77th Aero Squadron from Mar. 1 
to May 1, 1918; transferred to the 273rd Aero Squadron, May 1, at Barron Field, Fort 
Worth, until Sept. 1. Transferred to Squadron "D" Flying School Detachment, re- 
maining there until Mar. 15, 1919. Pro. to Sgt. June 1, 1918; to Sgt. 1st cl. Dec. 1, 1918; to 
Aviation Mechanician, Feb. 1, 1919. Hon. dis.. Mar. 15, 1919, Barron Field, Fort Worth, 
Texas. 
Present address — 1092 Hamilton Ave., St. Clair Heights, Detroit, Mich. 

MADDEN, TIMOTHY A.: 

Born, No. Andover, Mass.; enl. Aug. 2, 1917; assigned to 2nd Recruit Co. at Fort Slocum; 
transferred to 49th Aero Squadron, Texas-England; served with A. E. F. 11 months; sailed 
from U. S. Jan. 9, 1918, arriving at Liverpool; sailed from Liverpool, Dec. 4, 1918, arriving 
at New York. Hon. dis., Dec. 16, 1919 . . 
Present address — 22 Pearson St., Andover, Mass. 

MANNING, BENJAMIN: 

Born, Wallace, Nova Scotia; enl., Feb. 24, 1918. 21st AeroSqdn., Fort Slocum, N. Y.; 
501st Signal Corps, Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas; Souther Field, Americus, Ga.; 501st 
Const. Sqdn., Langley Field, Hampton, Va. Made Sgt., Apr. 15, 1918. Hon, dis., Dec. 
23, 1918, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 1 Temple Place, Andover, Mass. 



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MANNING, MICHAEL JOSEPH: 

Born, Mar. 17, 1889, Ga'way, Ireland; enl., Apr. 28, 1918, Co. F, 59th Infantry. Overseas 
July 6th, 1918 to May 11, 1919. In battles of St. Mihiel and Argonne. Wounded in the 
right hand, Oct. 6, 1918. Hon. dis., Aug. 20, 1919, Base Hosp. No. 1, Staten Island, N. Y. 
Present address — 14 Brechin Terrace, Andover, Mass. 

MANNING, WILLIAM A.: 

Born, Lowell, Mass.; enl. March 29, 1918; assigned to Camp Devens, Ayer, Battery F. A. 
306th 7th Co., 151st Depot Brigade; made corporal April 19, 1919; sailed from Hoboken 
Apr. 24, 1918, arriving at Brest May 2, 1918; sailed from Brest April 21, 1919, arrit-ing at 
Hoboken, April 29, 1919; in the following battles and campaigns: Baccarat, July 14- Aug. 
10, 1918; Vesle, Aug. 16-Sept. 15, Argonne, OfT. Meuse, Sept. 26-Nov. 11, 1918. Hon. 
dis., May 10, 1919. 
Present address — 86 Essex St., Andover, Mass. 

MARKEY, FRANCIS PATRICK: 

Born, Sept. 25, 1893, Lawrence, Mass.; enl., Apr. 29, 1918. With Co. B, 302 M. G. Bn.; 
Co. B, 147 M. G. Bn., and Co. F, G. H. Q.-A. S. C. Overseas service; July 4, 1918-Sept. 2, 
1919. MadePriv. 1st cl.. May 4, 1918; Corp., July 28, 1918; Sgt., June 1, 1919. Hon. dis., 
Sept. 2, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 48 Chestnut St., Andover, Mass. 

MARKEY, GEORGE PETER: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — 24 Pearson St., Andover, Mass. 

MARSHALL, CLIFFORD ELLIOT: 

Born, Oct. 20, 1899, Andover, Mass.; enl., Oct. 26, 1918. Co. 432, U. S. Marine Corps, 
Paris Island, S. C; Marine Barracks, lona Island, N. Y. Hon. dis.. May 20, 1919. 
Present address — 23 Washington Ave., Andover, Mass. 

MARTIN, EMANUEL: 

Enl. in 49th Inf. July 21, 1917; sailed for France, July, 1918; returned to U. S., July, 1919; 

hon. dis. July 25, 1919. 

Present address — 59 Elm St., Andover, Mass. Home address — Wamesit, Mass. 

MASSEY, WILLIAM GEORGE: 

Born, Plymouth, England; enl. June 24, 1918; assigned to Camp Custer, Michigan; Battery 
F, 329th F. A.; sailed from Hoboken, July 31, 1918, arriving at Liverpool Aug. 11, 1918; 
sailed from Brest March 26, 1919, arriving at Hoboken April 2, 1919; fought in the Toul 
Sector, Argonne, and St. Mihiel. Hon. dis., April 30, 1919. 
Present address — Magnolia Ave., Andover, Mass. 

MATTHEWS, FOSTER M.: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — Center St., Ballardvale, Mass. 

M ATTH EWS, M ED WI N : 

Born, Oct. 25, 1896, Scranton, Pa.; enl., Apr. 6, 1918 as Seaman, 2nd cl., with U. S. N. R. F., 
Class 4, General Service. At Charlestown Navy Yard for a number of weeks and with the 
S. A. T. C. at the Mass. Inst, of Technology. Discharged from active duty, Dec. 17, 1918. 
Present address — Shawsheen Road, Andover, Mass. 

MAXWELL, PATRICK V.: 

Born, Belfast, Ireland; inducted Aug. 29, 1918; assigned to 33rd Artillery at Camp Eustis, 
Virginia; transferred to 10th Co., 3rd Battalion, 151st Depot Brigade, Camp Devens. Hon. 
dis., Dec. 23rd, 1918 from Camp Devens. 
Present address — 37 Pearson St., Andover, Mass. 



200 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

MEARS, ELMER BARON: 

Born, Oct. 19, 1888, Ballardvale, Mass.; enl., June 15, 1918. Wentworth Inst. (Boston) 
Army Auto School, June 15, 1918 to Aug. 4, 1918. Transferred to Camp Johnston, Jack- 
sonville, Fla. Assigned to 5th Co., First Shop Reg., then to M. T. C. 533 of M. S. T. 426. 
Sailed for France Sept. 3, 1918. Assigned to Air Service, Advance Depot No. 1, at Toul, 
Oct. 16, 1918. In Argonne offensive. Made Corp. Aug. 24, 1918; Sgt., July 8, 1919. Motor 
Supply Train No. 426 received citation in appreciation of its service from Brig. Gen'l 
M. L. Walker. Hon. dis., Sept. 18, 1919. 
Present address. Center St., Ballardvale, Mass. 

MEARS, LEWIS NATHAN: 

Born, Andover, Mass.;enl. June5,1918;assigned toCo. G, 303rd Inf., 76th Division, at Camp 
Devens; transferred to 161st Reg., then to 125th, 32nd Division; served with A. E. F. from 
July 6, 1918 to Feb. 13, 1918; sailed from U. S. July 6, 1918, arriving at Tillsbury, Eng., 
July 24; sailed from Bordeaux, France, Jan. 29, 1919, arriving at Hoboken, Feb. 13, 1919; 
on the Verdun front from Sept. 14 to Oct. 8; captured Oct. 8; evacuated Trier, Germany; 
Oct. 13, to Dec. 3 to Oittell; Oct. 8 had gun shot wound in the right wrist. Hon. dis., Feb. 
28, 1918. 
Present address — Center St., Andover, Mass. 

MERROW, OSCAR E.: 

Born, Andover, Mass.; R. O. T. C, Plattsburg Barracks, N. Y., May 14, 1917-Aug. 15, 
1917. M. G. Co., 303rd Inf., 76th Div., Aug. 15, 1917-Nov. 9, 1918. 163rd Inf., 41st Div., 
Nov. 9, 1918-Jan. 9, 1919; O. C. Q. M., Hq. S. O. S., Jan. 9, 1919-May 1, 1919; O. D. Q. 
M., B. S. No. 9, S. O. S., May 1, 1919-June 5, 1919; Casual Officer, July 5, 1919-June 
21, 1919. 
Present address — 21 Elm St., Andover, Mass. 

MICHELINI, ADAM JOHN: 

Born, Nov. 17, 1897, Andover, Mass.; enl., Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov, 14, 1918, Camp 

Lee, Va. 

Present address — 98 No. Main St., Andover, Mass. 

MILLER, JOSEPH ABBOTT: 

Born, Dec. 24, 1886, Andover, Mass.; enl., Sept. 5, 1918. Served with 5th Co., 152nd Depot 
Brigade, from Sept. 5, 1918 to Dec. 1, 1918; transferred to 20th Co. of same Brigade. Hon. 
dis., Dec. 12, 1918, Camp Upton, L. I., N. Y. 
Present address — 80 Poor St., Andover, Mass. 

MILLER, ROBERT: 

Born, Aug. 20, 1899, Ballardvale, Mass.; enl., Dec. 5, 1917, as Seaman, 2nd cl., U. S. N. R, 
F.; at Hingham, Wakefield Rifle Range, Bumpkin Island; left for overseas, Aug. 15, 1918; 
served at Inverness, Scotland, Base 18, testing mines; returned Dec. 26, 1918; pro. M. M., 
2d cl. ; rel. from active duty, Jan. 11, 1919. 

MITCHELL, ARTHUR CHARLES: 

Born, Boston, Mass.; enl., Aug. 1, 1918. Co. A-B, 547 Engrs. 
Present address — 47 Cuba St., Andover, Mass. 

MITCHELL, GEORGE Y. : 

Born, Arbroath, Scotland; enl. Jan. 21, 1918; assigned to Canadian Forces at Toronto, 
Canada; 3rd Canadian Inf. Works Co. Hon. dis., March 20, 1919. 
Present address — 8 Cuba St., Andover, Mass. 



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MOODY, DWIGHT LYMAN: 

Born, Sept. 14, 1897, Edmunds, Maine; enl., Apr. 16, 1917, U. S. N. R. F., as Seaman. 
Served in Atlantic Fleet at sea, U. S. S. Arkansas, Oct. 1, 1917-Mar. 31, 1918; in Mining 
Squadron One, U. S. S. Roanoke, Mar. 31, 1918-Mar. 13, 1919. Overseas, engaged in lay- 
ing Great Northern Mines Barrage, May 3, 1918-Nov. 11, 1918. Com. Ensign, Sept. 18, 
1918; Lt. j. g., Sept. 21, 1919. Hon. dis., May 1, 1919, Boston. 
Present address — Ballardvale, Mass. 

MOODY, SAMUEL BARRETT: 

Born, Apr. 19, 1895, Ballardvale, Mass.; enl.. May 25, 1918 as Priv. 1st cl. Served with A. 
E. F. In France ten months (Oct. 1918 to July, 1919), with 333 Supply Co., Q. M. C. Hon. 
dis., Aug. 4, 1919. 
Present address — Ballardvale, Mass. 

MOORE, JAMES: 

Born in Ireland; enl. June 11, 1917; assigned to Co. F, 101st Inf., 26th Div. at Framingham; 
served with A. E. F. 22 months; sailed from Hoboken Sept. 7, 1917, arriving at St. Nazaire, 
Sept. 22, 1917; sailed from Brest, March 28, 1919, arriving at Boston, Apr. 5, 1919. Hon. 
dis., April 28, 1919. 
Present address — 19 Brechin Terrace, Andover, Mass. 

MOORE, JOHN: 

Born in Ireland;enl. Feb. 11, 1918; assigned to L Co., 5th Pioneer Infantry, at Camp Wads- 
worth, So. Carolina. Hon. dis., Dec. 27. 1918. 
Present address — 19 Brechin Terrace, Andover, Mass. 

MOOREHEAD, LUDWIG KING: 

Born, Jan. 21, 1896, Columbus, Ohio; enl.. May 14, 1917. 1st R. O. T. C. Plattsburg, N. Y. , 
May 14-Aug. 15, 1917; 302 Inf. Camp Devens, Mass., Oct. 1, '17-Mar. 31, '18; Hd'qtrs. 
151 Inf. Brig., Camp Devens, and A. E. F., Apr. 1, '18-Jan. 31, '19; 56 Pion. Inf. Feb. 1, 
'19-July 8, '19; A. of O., Germany Made 2nd Lt. Aug. 15, 1917; 1st Lt., Jan. 1, 1918. Hon., 
dis., July 8, 1919, Camp Dix, N. J. 
Present address — 45 West 49th St., New York City. 

MOOREHEAD, SINGLETON PEABODY: 

Enl. Oct. 1, 1918; Corp., U. S. Marine Unit, Harvard University; hon. dis., Dec. 22, 1918. 

MORRILL, BYRON S.: 

Born, Sept. 5, 1898, Andover, Mass.; enl., Apr. 10, 1917. Bat. F, 102nd F. A. In battles of 
Chemin des Dames, Toul, Second Battle of Marne, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne, and Verdun. 
Hon. dis.. May 13, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 89 Chestnut St., Andover, Mass. 

MORRILL, MARJORIE;.: 

Born, Andover, Mass.; enl. Oct., 1918; assigned to Army School of Nursing, Base Hospital, 
at Camp Devens, Mass. Hon. dis., April, 1919. 
Present address — 89 Chestnut St., Andover, Mass. 

MORRILL, STANWOOD APPLETON: 

Born, Apr. 17, 1894, Andover, Mass.; enl. Apr. 29, 1918. 36th Co. 9th Bn. 151st Depot 
Brigade. Pro. to Sgt., July 1, 1918. Hon. dis., Aug. 21, 1918. 
Present address — Dallas, Texas. 



202 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

MORRISSEY, WALTER JOSEPH: 

Born, North Andover, Mass.; inducted Nov. 7, 1918; assigned to U. S. N. Training Station 
at Hi'ngham, Mass. Hon. dis., Dec. 28, 1918. 
Present address — 45 High St., Andover, Mass. 

MORSE, CHESTER EDWIN: 

Born, Mar. 8, 1895, Vt.; enl., July 11, 1917. U. S. Coast Guard, July 1, 1917-June 25, 
1918 Stationed at Fort Trumbull, New London, Conn. U. S. Army: — Co. A, 303rd 
Bn. — Tank Corps, July 10, 1918-Apr. 10, 1919. Overseas, Aug. 14, 1918-Mar. 17, 
1919. Made Seaman, Feb. 1, 1918; Chief Yeoman, Apr. 1, 1918. Hon. dis., Apr. 10, 1919, 
Camp Devens. 
Present address — 70 Spring St., Springfield, Mass. 

MORSE, JOHN H AM ILTON : 

Captain, Sanitary Corps, commissioned Jan. 3, 1918; on duty War Department, Washing- 
ton, D. C, Office of the Surgeon General from Jan. 28, 1918 to Aug. 10, 1918; transferred 
to Facilities Department, Purchase, Storage, and Traffic Div., General Staflf; hon. dis., 
April 23, 1919. 
Present Address — 206 Johnson St., No. Andover, Mass. 

MORRISON, PHILLIPS GARRISON: 

Born, Merrimac, March 22, 1894; com. 1st Lt. in Ordnance June, 1917, and went to Frank- 
ford Arsenal, Philadelphia; transferred to Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md., Ordnance 
Dept.; died of pneumonia at Aberdeen, Oct. 12, 1918. 

MUISE. LEWIS WHELTON: 

Born, Jan. 30, 1894, Andover, Mass.; enl., Feb. 25, 1918. At Camp Devens from Feb. 25, 
1918 to Apr. 15, 1918. Transferred to Camp A. A. Humphreys, Va.; June 5, 1918, left for 
Camp Merritt, N. J. June 14, 1918, left for St. Nazaire, France, arriving June 28th. Trans- 
ferred to 116th Engrs. at Camp Angers, and then transferred to 105th Engrs. in Proven, 
Belgium. Took part in battle of the Voormezeele (Ypres-Lys offensive), also Battle of 
Bellicourt (Somme offensive) and the smashing of the Hindenburg Line, the Battle Mont- 
brevrian (Somme offensive), and the Battle of La Selle River (Somme Offensive) ; hon. 
dis., 1918. 
Present address — 65 Park St., Andover, Mass. 

MURNANE, CORNELIUS: 

Enl., 1917, 309th Inf., pro. Serg't; with A. E. F.; hon. dis., 1919. 

MURPHY, JOHN J.: 

Served on Mexican border as member of Co. F, in Oct. 1914; enl. Co. F, 101st Inf. and 
served overseas with it; fought at Seicheprey, 2nd battle of Marne, Fere, and Fismes; cited 
for conspicuous bravery at St. Mihiel; met death in fighting that followed in Meuse valley, 
Oct. 1918. 

MYATT, WILLIAM J.: 

Enl. May 10, 1918 in 312th Cav., Fort Myer, Va. Troop C; hon. dis. Jan. 10, 1919. 
Present address — ^61 Highland Road, Andover, Mass. 

MYERSCOUGH, JOSEPH: 

Born, Nov. 14, 1879, Muskoka, Canada; enl., Aug. 14, 1917, as 1st Lt. Until Nov. 14, '17, 
4th Co. Inf., 2nd Plattsburg Training Camp; Nov. 14, '17 to Mar. 2, '18, M. I. T. Ground 
School, Air Service; Mar. 10 to Sept. 20, 1st Asst. Eng. Officer, Elberta Field, Lonolse, Ark.; 
Sept. 20 to May 29, Chief Eng., Barron Field, Fort Worth, Texas. Made 1st Lt., Air Serv- 
ice, Nov. 14, '17; Capt., Air Service Reserve, May 29, 1919. Hon. dis., Barron Field, 
Fort Worth, Texas. 
Present address — Argilla Road, Andover, Mass. 



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NAPIER, GEORGE C: 

Born, Feb. 13, 1893, Andover, Mass.; enl., Aug. 5, 1915. With Bat. F, 102nd F. A. from 
Aug. 5, 1917 to July 12, 1918. 102nd F. A. Hd'qtrs., July 12, 1918 to Sept. 21, 1920. First 
Army Hd'qtrs., Troop A, Sept. 23, 1918 to Apr. 29, 1919. Base Section No. 9, Antwerp, 
Belgium, May 1, 1919-Aug. 15, 1919. Toul Sector, Apr. 3, 1918; Seicheprey Battle (defensive) 
Apr. 20, 21, '18; Aisne-Marne (offensive) July 18-Aug. 6; Champagne Marne, July 15, '18; 
St. Mihiel (offensive) Sept. 12-16; Meuse-Argonne, Sept. 26-Nov. 11, '18. Made Corp., 
July 18, 1918; Bn. Sgt. Maj., Oct. 24, 1918. Hon. dis., Sept. 4, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — Andover, Mass. 

NASH, RALPH EASTMAN: 

Enl. Dec. 1917 as Sergeant in Battery E, 54th Artillery, C. A. C; transferred to 30th Sep- 
arate Brigade, Railway Art., 1st Army; hon. dis., March 20, 1919. 
Present address — 89 Main St., Andover, Mass. 

NESS, ALEXANDER: 

Born, Tayport, Scotland; enl. Sept. 21, 1917; assigned to Co. B, 302nd Machine Gun Bat- 
talion at Camp Devens, Ayer; sailed from U. S. June 28, 1918, arriving at Liverpool, Eng.; 
sailed from St. Nazaire, arriving at Newport News, Virginia; served with A. E. F. from June 
28, 1918 to Jan. 3, 1919. Hon. dis., Jan. 19, 1919. 
Present address — 38 Red Spring Road, Andover, Mass. 

NICOLL, ALFRED D.: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — 26 Cuba St., Andover, Mass. 

NICOLL, CLAUDE F.: 

Born, Feb. 11, 1890, Arbroath, Scotland; enl., Sept. 4, 1917. 304th Ambulance Co. and 
Hospital Train 69. Sailed from Montreal July 10, 1918, returning, sailing from Brest, 
Oct. 26, 1919. Made Wagoner, Dec. 28, 1919. Hon. dis., Nov. 8, 1919, Camp Dix. 
Present address — 26 Cuba St., Andover, Mass. 

NICOLL, FRANKS.: 

Born, Oct. 8, 1888, Arbroath, Scotland; enl., May 25, 1917, Bat. F., 102nd F. A.; A. E. F., 
Chemin des Dames (Sec.) Toul Sec, Apremont, Seicheprey, Humbert Plantation, Xivray- 
Marician, Pas Fini Sector, Chateau-Thierry, Aisne-Marne, Rupt., St. Mihiel, Tryon Sec, 
Meuse-Argonne offensive. Hon. dis., Apr. 29, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 26 Cuba St., Andover, Mass. 

NICOLL, HARRY: 

Born, Dec. 29, 1892, Arbroath, Scotland; enl., Jan. 11, 1916, with C. E. F. With 134th 
Inf. Bn. from date of enlistment until Feb. 18, 1918. Transferred to 3rd Can. M. G. B. 
Left Canada Aug. 4 for England. Appointed Instructor in Musketry and Machine Gun- 
nery in training division. Left England for France, Mar. 18, 1918. Engaged in battles at 
Amiens, Parvillers, Arras, Monchy-le-Praux, Cambrai. Made Corp. Mar. 18, 1916; Pla- 
toon Sgt., June 5, 1916. Received gun shot wound in left foot Sept. 29, 1918 at Cambrai 
Hon. dis., Mar. 28, 1919, Toronto, Canada. 
Present address — 1968a Dufferin St., Toronto, Ont., Canada. 

NICOLL, JAMES K.: 

With Canadian Expeditionary forces. 



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NICOLL, JOHN PATERSON: 

Born, Mar. 19, 1898, Arbroath, Scotland; enl., Dec. 3, 1917, with C. E. F., 1st Depot Bn., 
2nd C. O. R. Transferred in France to 102nd Canadian Inf. Bn. In battles of Amiens, 
Arras, Bourlon Woods, Cambrai, Valenciennes, and Braisieux. Hon. dis., June 8, 1919, 
Toronto, Ont., Canada. 
Present address — 28 Shawsheen Road, Andover, Mass. 

NICOLL, WILLIAM BAIN: 

Born, Aug. 10, 1895, Scotland; enl., Sept. 21, 1917, with Depot Brigade, Camp Devens. 
Transferred to 327th Inf., 82nd Div., Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga. Overseas with 327th 
Inf. In battles of St. Mihiel and Argonne Forest. Gassed. Hon. dis.. Mar. 21, 1919, 
Camp Devens. 
Present address — 27 Stickney St., West Lynn, Mass. 

NOYES, JOHN D.: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 

Present address — Lovejoy Road, R. F. D. No. 2, Lowell, Mass. 

NUCKLEY, FRANKJ.: 

Born, June 23, 1892, Lynn, Mass.; enl., July 31, 1917. E. O. R. C, Watertown Arsenal, 
Dec. 10, '17-Jan. 28, '18; Washington, D. C, Jan. 28, '18-Mar. 23, '18; Co. 2, 3rd Bn. 
Ordnance, Camp Hancock, Ga., Mar. 23, '18-July 4, '18; 2nd Co. O. R. S. D. (A. E. F. 
France) July 9, '18-May 24, '19. Made Ordnance Sgt., Feb. 12, '18; 1st Sgt., (acting) Jan. 
16, '19. Hon. dis., June 3, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 57 Park St., Andover, Mass. 

NUNN, CHARLES GEORGE: 

Born, Mar. 15, 1888, England; enl., Apr. 29, 1918. Co. B, 304th Inf., 76th Div., Apr. 29- 
July 29, 1918; Co. G, 58th Inf., 4th Div., July 29, '18-Aug. 6, '19. Overseas July 5, 1918 to 
Aug. 4, 1919. In battles of Aisne-Marne, St. Mihiel, Toul Sector, and Meuse-Argonne. 
Hon. dis., Aug. 16, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — U. S. P. H. S. Hospital, West Roxbury, Mass. 

O'CONNELL, CLARENCE EDWARD: 

Born, May 18, 1889, Andover; enl., July 15, 1918, 307th M. T. C; sailed overseas, Sept. 21. 
1918; returned, July 15, 1919; pro. Serg't, Jan., 1919; hon. dis., July 29, 1919, Camp Dev- 
ens. 
Present address — 65 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. 

O'CONNELL, EDWARD DAVID: 

Born, Andover, Mass.; enl. Oct. 5, 1917; assigned to 18th Depot Brigade at Camp Devens J 
transferred to Co. A, 320th Machine Gun Battalion; served with A. E. F. from April 25. 
1918 to Dec. 17, 1918; sailed from Hoboken, April 25, 1918,arrivingatLiverpool,Eng.; sailed 
from Bordeaux, arriving at Hoboken Dec. 17, 1918; took part in the following battles: 
Toul, Lorraine, Argonne Forest, Verdun. Hon. dis., Jan. 24, 1919. 
Present address — 95 Chestnut St., Andover, Mass. 

O'CONNELL, WALTER JOSEPH: 

Born, Mar. 19, 1891, Andover, Mass.; enl., Dec. 12, 1917 as Sgt. with Repair Unit No. 322. 

M. T. C. Overseas from Mar. 30, 1918 to July 7, 1919. Hon. dis., July 12, 1919, Camp 

Devens. 

Present address — 95 Chestnut St., Andover, Mass. 

O'DOWD, DOMINICK JOSEPH: 

Born, Castle Baldwin, County Sligo , Ireland; enl., Sept. 12, 1918, Co. B, S. A. T. C. Unit, 
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass. Hon. dis., Dec. 7, 1918, Chestnut Hill, Mass. 
Present address — 59 Elm St., Andover, Mass. 



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O'HARE, CHARLES J.: 

Born in Ireland; enl. Sept. 7, 1918; assigned to Recruiting Station at East Boston; trans- 
ferred to Norfolk, Va. (Calvin Austin and Minnesota Ships.) Merchant Marine. Hon. 
dis., Jan. 24, 1919. 

O'NEILL, JOHN JOSEPH: 

Born, Jan. 7, 1896, Ireland; enl., June 19, 1917, Co. F, 101st Reg't. Chemin des Dames, 
Feb., 1918; Loraine, Apr. to June 29, 1918; Toul, Chateau-Thierry, July, 1918; St. Mihiel, 
Sept., 1918; Argonne Forest, Oct., 1918. Wounded, Fleury Woods, June, 1918; wounded, 
Chateau Thierry, July, 1918; gassed, July, 1918. Hon. dis., Oct. 29, 1919, Base Hosp. No. 
41, Fox Hill, Staten Island, N. Y. 

O'NEILL, PATRICK: 

Killed in action Aug. 27, fighting with Victoria Rifles, Canadian Forces, France; enl. in A 
Co., 26th Battalion, Victoria Rifles. 

O'SULLIVAN, MARGARET MARY: 

Born, Mar. 18, 1894, New York City; enl., Nov. 11, 1917. Nov. 11, 1917 to May 16, 1919, 
Sec'y in the office of the Surgeon General, Washington, D. C. (War Dept.). May 17, 1919, 
transferred to Hd'qtrs, Northeastern Dept., Motor Transport Corps, Boston, Mass. per 
authority of the Secretary of War, dated May 8, 1919. At present stationed at Hd'qtrs, 
First Corps Area, Quartermaster's Office Transportation Division (War Department), 99 
Chauncy St., Boston, Mass. 
Present address — 35 Washington Ave., Andover, Mass. 

O'SULLIVAN, TIMOTHY JOSEPH, JR.; 

Born, Feb. 6, 1895, New York City; enl., May 5, 1917, discharged Oct. 4, 1917, re-enlisted, 
June 27, 1918. R. O. T. C, Plattsburg, Aug. 27, '17-Oct. 4, '17. 153 D. B., June 27, '18- 
July27, '18. Bat. 275. R.O.T. C, Camp Taylor, July 27, '18-Oct. 12, '18; Bat. A, 8th Corps 
Art., Oct. 12, '18-Nov. 30, '18; Troop I, 4th Cavalry, Nov. 30, '18-Apr. 3, '19. Made 2nd 
Lt., F. A., Regular Army, July 27, 1918. Hon. dis., Apr. 3, 1919, Camp Meade, Md., as 
Capt., Reserve Corps. 
Present address — 5139 Hazel Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. 

OTIS, EVERETT HAYDEN: 

Born, Nov. 28, 1898, Lawrence, Mass.; enl., Oct. 10, 1918, Tufts College S. A. T. C. Hon. 
dis., Dec. 10, 1918, Tufts College, Mass. 
Present address — 7 Pine St., Andover, Mass. 

PAINE, LEWIS SHERMAN: 

Born, Oct. 14, 1894, Andover, Mass.; enl., July 24, 1918; Co. A, 34th M. G. B., 12th Div. 
(Plymouth) Camp Devens. Hon. dis., Jan. 21, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 28 Walnut Ave., Andover, Mass. 

PARISEAU, CYRIL E.: 

Born, Andover, Mass.; inducted Oct. 5, 1917; assigned to 151st Depot Brigade at Camp 
Devens; transferred to 401st Tele. B'n. Medical Detachment; served with A. E. F. 14 
months; sailed from New York March 12, 1918, arriving at Brest March 19; sailed from 
Bordeaux, May 17, 1919, arriving at Hoboken May 28, 1919; was at St. Mihiel and Meuse- 
Argonne Offensive. Hon. dis., June 4, 1919. 
Present address — River Road, Andover, Mass. 

PARTRIDGE, EDWARD R.: 

Born, Gloucester, Mass.; enl. June 12, 1914; assigned to Co. M, 5th Pioneer Infantry. Hon. 

dis., Dec. 27, 1918. 

Present address — 50 Walnut Ave., Andover, Mass. 



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PARTRIDGE, RALPH HERRICK: 

Born, Aug. 25, 1893, Gloucester, Mass.; enl., Apr. 16, 1917, Bat. F., 102nd F. A. In battles 
of Seicheprey, Xivray, Second Battle of Marne, St. Mihiel, and Argonne-Meuse. Made 
Corp. Dec. 6, 1918. Hon. dis., Apr. 29, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 50 Walnut Ave., Andover, Mass. 

PERT, WILLIAM: 

Born, Dundee, Scotland; enl., 1914, British Black Watch; killed at Loos, Sept. 25, 1916; 
the first Andover man to lose his life in the World War. 

PETERS, JOSEPH: 

Born, Canada, Aug. 17, 1893; enl., Apr. 29, 1918, Camp Devens; hon. dis., S. C. D., May 

15,1918. 

Present Address — South Main St., Andover, Mass. 

PETERSON, PHILIP P.: 

Born, Feb. 5, 1898, West Andover, Mass.; enl., Mar. 12, 1918 and sent to Ft. Slocum, N. Y. 
Transferred to Douglas, Arizona, in 17th Cavalry, Troop E. Hon. dis.. Mar. 12, 1919, 
Marksman, R. S. O. 167. Enlisted a second time in Douglas, Arizona, with Troop E, 17th 
Cavalry, as Priv. 1st cl. Served a year in Honolulu. Hon. dis., Feb. 28, 1920, San Fran- 
cisco, Calif. 
Present address — West Andover, Mass. 

PETTY, FRANK RALTON: 

Born, May 15, 1894, So. Groveland, Mass.; enl., Nov. 6, 1917, with 165th Aero Squadron. 
Arrived overseas Mar. 5, 1918 — arrived U. S., June 12, 1919. Made Corp., . Dec. 7, 1918; 
Sgt., 1st cl.. May 15, 1919. Hon. dis., June 21, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address. Center St., Ballardvale, Mass. 

PETTY, JAMES L.: 

Enl., Apr., 1917 in Co. L, 104th Inf.; sailed overseas Sept., 1917; in all battles of 26th Div.; 
returned April, 1919; hon. dis., Apr. 29, 1919. 
Present address — Andover, Mass. 

PHELPS, HENRY: 

Born, No. Andover, Mass.; enl. July 31, 1917; assigned to 471st Aero Squad (59th) at 
Kelley Field, Texas; served with A. E. F. in France and England as Sergeant First Class; 
sailed from U. S. Jan. 18, 1918, arriving at Brest Feb. 5, 1918; sailed from Liverpool and 
arrived in U. S. again Dec. 22, 1918. Hon. dis., Dec. 23, 1918. 
Present address — Highplain Road, Andover, Mass. 

PHIPPS,CARLD.: 

Born in Canada; enl. Jan. 3, 1918; assigned to 249th Battalion at Quebec City; transferred to 
4th Battalion Machine Gun Corps. Hon. dis., July 6, 1919. 
Present address — 8 Lewis St., Andover, Mass. 

PLATT, JOHN HENRY: 

Born, Ballardvale, Mass.; enl. June 15, 1918; assigned to Wentworth Inst, at Boston, 
Headquarters Co., 73d Reg., 12th Division. Hon. dis., Jan. 17, 1919. 
Present address — Center St., Ballardvale, Mass. 

PLATT, THOMAS W., JR.: 

Born, Andover, Mass.; enl. in Naval Reserves April, 1917; called to Bumpkin Island, Oct., 
1917 and later transferred to Machias, Me., headquarters; appointed Signal Quartermaster 
at Nash Island, Me.; transferred to Ellsworth, Me.; died of pneumonia at Portsmouth 
Naval Hospital, Oct. 14, 1918. 



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POLAND, FRANK: 

Born in Scotland; inducted Nov. 9, 1918, and reported at Georgetown. Hon. dis., Nov. 14, 

1918. 

Present address — 51 Red Spring Road, Andover, Mass. 

POLAND, JAMES: 

Born, Arbroath, Scotland; enl. Jan. 2, 1918; assigned to No. 2 Co., Canadian Engineers, at 
Montreal; sailed from Halifax Feb. 1, 1918, arriving at Liverpool Feb. 12; sailed from 
Liverpool June 1, 1919, arriving at Quebec, June 13. Hon. dis., June 13, 1919. 
Present address — 51 Red Spring Road, Andover, Mass. 

PORTER, HENRY F.: 

Born, June 20, 1893, Andover, Mass.; enl., June 23, 1918. With 142nd Spruce Sqdn., 
Vancouver, Wash, and Marshfield, Oregon. Hon. dis., Jan. 10, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 75 School St., Andover, Mass. 

PORTER, JOHN C: 

Born, Pittsburgh, Pa. Served in Co. C, 12th Inf., July 23, 1905 to July 22, 1908, and in Co- 
E, 13th Inf., Sept. 3, 1908 to Sept. 2, 1911; enl. Jan. 24, 1913; assigned to Supply Co. 47th 
Infantry at Ft. Slocum, N. Y. Made sergeant Aug. 26, 1919; served in A. E. F. in France 
and Germany from May 23, 1918 to July 16, 1919; sailed from Hoboken May, 1918, arriving 
at Bordeaux, June, 19 18; sailed from Brest and arrived in New York, July, 1919; was in the 
following battles and campaigns: Vesle Sector, Toulon Sector, St. Mihiel Off., Meuse-Ar- 
gonne Off., Aisne-Marne Off. Hon. dis., Jan. 23, 1920. 
Present address — School St., Andover, Mass. 

QUINN, JOSEPH AUGUSTUS: 

Born, Apr. 25, 1893, Ballardvale, Mass.; enl., Apr. 29, 1918. 11th Co., 151 D. B., Apr. 29- 
May 24, '18; Co. F, 301st Inf., May 24-July 30, '18; Co. B, 163rd Inf., July 29-Aug. 7, '18; 
Co. D, 58th Inf., 4th Div., Aug. 7, '18-Aug. 7, '19. Sailed overseas July 4, 1918, returning 
Aug. 1, 1919. In following battles — Meuse-Argonne, Vesle sector, Toul sector, St. 
Mihiel. Made Priv. 1st cl. Dec. 28, 1918. Marched for twenty-three days with the Army 
of Occupation from France to Germany, walking from 20 to 25 miles a day. In Germany 
from Dec. 3, 1918 to July 13, 1919. Hon. dis., Aug. 7, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — River St., Ballardvale, Mass. 

QUINN, PETER DANIEL: 

Born, Oct. 22, 1895, Ballardvale, Mass.; enl., Apr. 29, 1918. 76th Div., Apr. 29 to July 27, 
1918, replacing the 4th Div. overseas from July 27, 1918 to June 22, 1919. Engaged in the 
Vesle River Drive, St. Mihiel, Argonne-Meuse offensive, and was on the Metz Front 
when the armistice was signed. Hon. dis., July 17, 1919. 
Present address — River St., Ballardvale, Mass. 

RAE, JOHN: 

Born, Arbroath, Scotland; enl. July 22, 1917; assigned to F Co., 49th Infantry at Syracuse, 
N. Y.; transferred to 23rd Infantry; served with A. E. F. 16 months; sailed from Hoboken 
Sept. 7, 1917, arriving at St. Nazaire; returning, sailed from Bordeaux and arrived in New- 
port News, Va.; in the battles of Chateau-Thierry, Soissons, and Meuse; received a shrap- 
nel wound while in action; hon. dis., Jan. 27, 1919. 
Present address — 49 Bartlet St., Andover, Mass. 

RAE, WILLIAM: 

Born, Arbroath, Scotland; enl., 1915, British Black Watch; pro. Lance Serg't; killed at 
Loos, Aug., 1917. 



208 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

RALPH, BLANCHARD EARL: 

Born, Dec. 8, 1890, Wallace, Nova Scotia; enl., Aug. 29, 1918. Camp Utilities Det., Engi- 
neering Dept., Q.M.C., Camp Upton, L. L.N.Y., Sept. 29-Dec. 6. 7th Co., 2nd Bn. 152nd, 
Depot Brigade, Camp Upton, Aug. 30-Sept. 28. Hon. dis., Dec. 6, 1918, Camp Upton, L. L, 
N. Y. 
Present address — 140 No. Flower St., Los Angeles, Calif. 

RALPH, LINDSAY HAROLD: 

Born, May 19, 1893, Andover, Mass.; enl., June 3, 1917 as Priv. 1st cl., 55th Art., C. A.C. 
Sailed for England Mar. 1918, returning in Apr., 1919. In Chateau-Thierry, Aisne River, 
Verdun, Argonne Forest, and Meuse River engagements. Gassed. Hon, dis., Apr. 5, 1919, 
Camp Devens. 
Present address — 1286 Main St., Worcester, Mass. 

RAMSDEN, JOHN W.: 

Born, Sept. 29, 1891, England; enl., Mar. 25, 1917 as Supply Sgt., Co. F, 101st U. S. Inf. 
Chemin des Dames, Feb. 6, Mar. 21 ; La Reive and Bourge Sector, Apr. 3-June 28; Pas Fini 
sector, July 10-15, and battle of Chateau-Thierry. From Chateau-Thierry sent to Officers' 
Training School at Tangiers, France, and placed on special duty instructing recruits at 
Centres in the south of France. Hon. dis., Mar. 1, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 27 Salem St., Lawrence, Mass. 

REED, ALBERT KIDDER: 

Born, Sept. 27, 1894, Medford, Mass.; enl., Aug. 6, 1917. Depot Co. F, Burlington, Vt., 
Aug. 6, 1917 to Jan. 25, 1918; 317th Field Signal Bn., Jan. 25, 1918 to June 14, 1919. Left 
U. S. July 9, 1918, returning June 6, 1919. Served in St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offen- 
sives. Made Corp. Jan. 1, 1918; Chauffeur, 1st cl., May 1, 1918. Hon. dis., June 14, 1919, 
Camp Devens. 
Present address — 68 Nonantum St., Brighton, Mass. 

REED, AUSTIN MURRAY: 

Born, Dorchester St., South Lawrence; Mass.; enl., May 29, 1918. Medical Corps, Fort 
Slocum, May 30, 1918-June 8, 1918; Ft. Morgan, Ala., June 12, 1918-Jan. 11, 1919. At 
Debarkation Hospital No. 5, New York City, from Jan. 14 to June 21, 1919. Made Sgt., 
Dec. 21, 1918. Hon. dis., Debarkation Hosp. No. 5, N. Y. City, June 21, 1919. 
Present address — Box 72, Stinson St., Andover, Mass. 

REMMES, JOSEPH T.: 

Born, Andover, Mass.; enl., Dec. 11, 1917. Enlisted as an Electrician in the Aviation 
Section and sent to Ft. Slocum, N. Y. From there to Camp Dix, N. J., Feb. 15, 1917, 
attached to the 310th Inf., Co. M. Transferred to Co. C, 303rd Field Signal Bn. 
Feb. 22, 1918. Left for overseas May 26, 1918, returned May 15, 1919. In St. Mihiel of- 
fensive, Sept. 12-16, 1918; Limey Sector, Sept. 16-Oct. 4, 1918; Argonne-Meuse offensive, 
Oct. 10-Nov. 6, 1918. Made Corp., Sept., 1918; Sgt., Dec, 1918; Sgt., 1st cl., Apr., 1919. 
Hon. dis., Dec. 18, 1919, Camp Dix. 
Present address — Woodland Road, Andover, Mass. 

RENNY, WILLIAM: 

Born, Feb. 24, 1899, Scotland; enl., July 25, 1917. Co. L, 104th Inf., 26th Div. until Oct. 
10, 1918; transferred to Hd'qtrs Printing Co. Served in A. E. F. from Sept. 25, 1917 to 
June 19, 1919. Wounded in left eye at Apremont, Apr. 10, 1918. Hon. dis., June 26, 1919. 
Present address — 9 Chapman Ave., Andover, Mass. 



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RICE, PAUL MOSELEY: 

Born, May 4, 1892, Wollaston, Mass.; enl., Oct. 22, 1917, Candidate for Commission, Regu- 
lar Army. Provisional Officers Bn., Ft. Leavenworth, Kas. Nov. 23, 1917-Feb. 24, 1918, 
13th Cavalry, McAllen, Texas. After Dec. 11, 1918, at Ft. Clark, Texas. Made 2nd Lt., 
13th Cav., Feb. 25, 1918; 1st Lt., Aug. 17, 1918. Hon. dis., Dec. 31, 1918, Ft. Clark, Texas. 
Present address — 6 North Main St., Andover, Mass. 

RICHARDSON, GEORGE OLIVER: 

Born, Sept. 1, 1892, Boston Mass.; enl., Nov. 13, 1917. 30th Engrs., Co. B, Camp Ameri- 
can University, Washington, D. C, Nov. 22, 1917-Dec. 4, 1917, with Co. C from Dec. 5 
to Dec. 10, at Washington, and at Camp Belvoir, Va., Dec. 11 to Dec. 20 and at Ft. Myer, 
Va., from Dec. 21, 1917 to Jan. 12, 1918. Chemical Warfare Service, Jan. 13, 1918 to Dec. 
21, 1918, at American University, Washington, D. C. Did research work in connection with 
the manufacture of Mustard Gas and Lewisite, particularly the former. Made 2nd Lt., 
Mar. 24, 1918. Hon. dis., Dec. 21, 1918, American University. 

Present address — c-o National Aniline & Chemical Co., Inc., 21 Burling Slip, N.Y. City, 
(c-o Dept. of Foreign Sales). 

RICHARDSON, OLIN LINCOLN: 

Born, Mar. 3, 1896, Roslindale, Mass.; enl., Oct. 5, 1917. Co. M, 326th Inf., 82nd Div. 
Left U. S. A. Apr. 28, 1918. Arrived in France, May 6, 1918. Toul sector, June 25 to Aug. 
5, 1918; Marbach sector, Aug. 17-Sept. 20, 1918; St. Mihiel offensive, Sept. 12 to 15th, 1918; 
Meuse-Argonne, Sept. 26 to Oct. 31, 1918. Made Corp., Mar. 15, 1918. Gassed in Toul sec- 
tor Aug. 4, 1918. Hon. dis., June 13, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 50 High St., Andover, Mass. 

RILEY, JOSEPH A.: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — River Road, Ballardvale, Mass. 

RILEY, WILLIAM JOSEPH: 

Born, May 28, 1897, Ballardvale, Mass.; enl. June 4, 1918 as storekeeper, 2nd cl. in U. S. 

Navy. Served on Receiving Ship at Boston and Hingham. Hon. dis., June 1, 1919, Boston, 

Mass. 

Present address — Center St., Ballardvale, Mass. 

RODGER, HARRY ALEXANDER: 

Born, Jan. 19, 1899, Boston, Mass.; enl. Aug. 9, 1918 as Apprentice Seaman. Received 
training at Newport, R. I. Training Station. Receiving Ship at Boston. Navy Yard at 
Philadelphia, U. S. S. Idaho, Super-dreadnaught. Made Seaman, 2nd cl., Oct. 9, 1918. 
Hon. dis., June 23, 1919, U. S. S. Idaho. 
Present address — 14 Maple Ave., Andover, Mass. 

ROGERS, THOMAS JOSEPH: 

Born, Paterson, N. J.; enl., Aug. 2, 1917. 478th Aero. Sqdn. from Aug. 2, 1917 until 
Jan. 25, 1919. At Ft. Slocum, N. Y. from Aug. 2 until Aug. 8, 1917 —at Kelly Field, 
Texas, from Aug. 11, 1917 until Dec. 15, 1917 —at Morrison, Va., from Dec. 22, 1917 un- 
til Jan. 18, 1918. Left for overseas Jan. 23, arrived at Brest, France, Feb. 5. Went from 
Brest to Le Havre; from Le Havre to England. Left England Nov. 24, 1919; arrived in 
New York Dec. 5, 1919. Hon. dis., Jan. 25, 1919 at Garden City, N. Y. 
Present address — 18 Ridge St., Andover, Mass. 

ROGGEMAN, EDWARD WALTER: 

Born, June 11, 1887, Berlin, Germany; enl., Apr. 29, 1918, private, as. to 11th Co., 151st 
D. B., Camp Devens; trans., Co. A., 302d M. G. Bn; pro. Corp'l and Serg't; hon. dis.. May 
28, 1919, as Serg't, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 99 Elm Street, Andover, Mass. 



210 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

RONAN, JOHN F.: 

Born, Dec. 21, 1893, Andover; enl., Dec. 27, 1917, as Seaman, 2d CI., U. S. N. R. F.; pro. 
July, 1918, to M. M., 2d CI.; hon. dis., Dec. 23, 1918. 
Present address — 71 Basswood St., Lawrence, Mass. 

ROSE, HERBERT ADAMS: 

Born, 1897, Lawrence, Mass.; enl., Aug. 1, 1918. Enlisted in Signal Corps, Dartmouth 
training detachment. Served through training period and retained in same unit as 
instructor until discharged. Made Instructor Sgt., Sept. 1, 1918. Hon. dis., Dec. 24, 1918. 
Present address — Walpole, Mass. 

ROSS, CHARLES: 

Born, Arbroath, Scotland; enl. Aug. 9, 1917; assigned to 8th Field Ambulance at St. John's, 
N. B.; served with B. E. F. — hospital work — and made one trip across, sailing from Mon- 
treal, Can. and landing at Liverpool, Eng. Hon. dis., March 13, 1919. 
Present address — 93 Main St., Andover, Mass. 

ROSS, JOHN CULBERT: 

Born, Arbroath, Scotland; enl. July 25, 1917; assigned to Co. L, 8th Reg. at Lynnfield, 
Mass.; Co. L, 104th Infantry; served with A. E. F. 15 months; sailed from U. S. Sept. 26, 
1918, arriving at port overseas Oct. 16; sailed from port overseas, arriving in U. S. Dec. 11, 
1918; engaged in the battles of Chateau-Thierry, Toul, St. Mihiel, Chemin-des-Dames, 
Meuse, Argonne Forest, and Verdun; was wounded in the right hand by shrapnel, and also 
had trench feet; received a personal citation after Chateau-Thierry Battle. Hon. dis., Feb. 
7, 1919. 
Present address — 12 Essex St., Andover, Mass. 

ROWELL, HORACE EDWARD: 

Born, Oct. 15, 1895, Lawrence, Mass.; enl., Aug. 15, 1918. S. A. T. C, Albany, N. Y., Aug. 
15 to Oct. 15, 1918. Bat. C, 28th C. A. C, Fort Andrews, Mass., Oct. 15 to Dec. 14, 1918. 
Made Corp. Nov. 18, 1918. Hon. dis., Dec. 14, 1918, Fort Andrews, Mass. 
Present address — 40 Red Spring Road, Andover, Mass. 

SAUNDERS, GEORGE HOWARTH: 

Born, Dec. 4, 1891, Andover, Mass.; enl., with Bat. F., 102nd F. A., as Priv. 1st cl. One of 
the original men of the Y. D. Took part in all battlesand engagementsof thisdivision. Hon. 
dis., Apr. 29, 1919, Camp Devens, as Anti-air-craft gunner attached to Bat. F. 
Present address — 57 Randolph St., Arlington, Mass. 

SCHULTZ, JOSEPH CHARLES: 

Born, Middletown, Conn.; enl. Jan. 29, 1918; assigned to Armed Guard N. R. F. at City 
Park Barracks, Brooklyn, N. Y.; served 7 months overseas, landing at Genoa, Italy, Brest, 
France, and Plymouth, England. Hon. dis., Dec. 23, 1918. 
Present address — 22 Haverhill St., Andover, Mass. 

SCOTT, GEORGE L.: 

Born, Sept. 2, 1895, Lawrence, Mass.; enl.. May 28, 1917, Camp Devens; as. Base Hospital 
No. 8; arrived in France, July, 1918, and stationed at Joue les Tours, for eight mos.; returned 
Mar., 1919; hon. dis., April 4, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 160 Belmont Street, Maiden, Mass. 

SCOTT, GEORGE WALLACE: 

Born, Sept. 28, 1888, Andover, Mass.; enl. July 25, 1918; Senior Medical Dept., Medical 
Ware House, Pelham Bay, N. Y.; H. A. 2nd, U. S. N. R. F.; hon. dis., Feb. 1919. 
Present address — Andover, Mass. 



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SCOTT, JOHN WILLIAM : 

Born, Sept. 9, 1895, Ballardvale, Mass.; enl. Sept. 21, 1917 as Corp., Co. B, 302nd M. G. B., 
Sept., 1917 to July, 1918; Co. B, 3rd M. G. B., July, 1918-Apr. 1919. Served in England 
and France from July 6, 1918 to Apr. 2, 1919. St. Mihiel, Sept. 12, '18; Meuse-Argonne, 
Oct. 1-11, '18; Aisne-Marne, Nov. 1, '18. Hon. dis., Apr. 10, 1919, Camp Dix. 
Present address — 384 So. Broadway, Lawrence, Mass. 

SEACOLE, DAVID GEORGE: 

Born, Haverhill, Mass.; inducted Nov. 9, 1918; reported at Georgetown and assigned to 

Camp Lee; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 

Present address — 6 Harding St., Andover, Mass. 

SELLARS, WILLIAM WALTER: 

Born, Andover, Mass., Dec. 15, 1897; enl., April 7, 1917, in Bat. C, 102nd F. A.; hon. dis. 

S. C. D., Sept., 1917. 

Present address — Highland Road, Andover, Mass. 

SELDEN, JAMES K.: 

Born, Jan. 1, 1894, Lawrence, Mass.; enl., Oct. 4, 1915. A Bat. 101st F. A. Oct. 4, '15 

to July 3, '17. Plattsburg, 1917. Made 2nd Lt. A. S. A.— R. M. A., May 13, 1918. Crashed 

while instructing at San Antonio, Tex., June 5, 1918. Hon. dis., Jan. 7, 1919, San Diego, 

Calif. 

Present address — 42 School St., Andover, Mass. 

SELLARS, WILLIAM DONALDSON: 

Born, Nov. 28, 1892, Lochee, Scotland; enl., Feb. 7, 1918. Co. A, 318th Reg't. Engrs. 
6th Div. U. S. A., Feb. 7, '18 to Apr. 13, '19. Richmond, Va., Feb. 7th to 17th, '18. Under 
orders of Agt. Gen'l. Vancouver Barracks, Vancouver, Wash., from Feb. 17 to Apr. 28, 
'18. Camp Merritt, N. J., Apr. 28-May 6, '18. Overseas from May 7, '18 to Apr. 13, '19 
with Co. A, 318th Reg't; from Apr. 13, '19 to June 12, '19 with Casualty Co. Slightly 
gassed Sept. 11, '18, Larchey, Gerardmer sector, Vosges, France. Badly shell shocked, 
Sept. 15, 1918, Boussat, Gerardmer Sector, Vosges, France. Suffered slight concussion from 
latter experience. Saw service at Vosges, Gerardmer Sector, Sept. 1, to Oct. 11, 1918; 
Meuse-Argonne offensive, Oct. 27. '18 to Nov. 11, '18. During last month of war hiked, 
forced marching (heavy marching order) over 350 miles under terrible conditions. Hon. 
dis., July 24, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — c-o American Cyanamid Co., Brewster, Fla. 

SHARP. ALBERT ROY: 

Born, Prescott, Ontario; enl. June 12, 1918; assigned to Toronto, Canada; transferred to 1st 
C. O. R., to 3rd Canadian Reserve Battalion, to 4th Battalion; served with B. E. F.; sailed 
from Montreal July 19, 1918, arriving at Pillbury Docks, London, Aug. 8; sailed from Liver- 
pool April 1, 1919, arriving at Halifax, N. S., Apr. 9, 1919. Hon. dis., April 11, 1919. 
Present address — 58 Red Spring Road, Andover, Mass. 

SHARP, DANIEL J. C: 

Born, May 27, 1899, Dundee, Scotland; entered Canadian Army May 18, 1918; served in 

1st Depot Battalion, St. John, N. B. until time of sailing for France, July 1, 1918; trans, to 

13th Canadian Reserves Battalion in England; returned June 26, 1919; hon. dis., July 7, 

1919. 

Present address — 20 Cuba St.,' Andover, Mass. 



212 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

SHATTUCK, CHARLES: 

Born, Andover, Mass.; enl. Aug. 5, 1917; assigned to Battery F, 102nd Field Artillery at 

Boxford, Mass.; transferred to 102nd Supply Co., Newport News, Va. Hon.dis., Nov. 13, 

1917. 

Present address — 27 Chestnut St., Andover, Mass. 

SHATTUCK, FREDA.: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 

SHATTUCK, RALPH: 

Born, Andover, Mass.; Air Service Casual Co. No. 2; enl. Nov. 23, 1917; assigned to 21st 
Co. at Ft. Slocum; transferred to 220th Aero Squadron, Kelley Field, Texas, to 330th Aero 
Service Squadron, Grantham, Eng., to 1102 Replacement Squadron, St. Maixcent, France, 
and to 1108 Replacement Squadron, Orley, France; served with A. E. F. from March 29, 
1918 to Feb. 9, 1919; sailed from Hoboken March 29, 1918, arriving at Liverpool April 6, 
1918; sailed from Brest, Jan. 28, 1919, arriving at New York, Feb. 9, 1919. Hon. dis., Feb. 
21, 1919. 
Present address — 27 Chestnut St., Andover, Mass. 

SHAW, CHARLES H.: 

Inducted Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — 28 Essex St., Andover, Mass. 

SHERRY, CHARLES W.: 

Born, Andover, Mass.; inducted May 31, 1918; assigned to 25th Recruiting Co. at Fort 
Slocum; transferred to 7th Regiment, Machine Gun School, Camp Jackson, to 361st Machine 
Gun Battalion; served with A. E. F. 9 months; sailed from Newport News, Sept. 5, 1918, 
arriving at Brest Sept. 19; sailed from Bordeaux May 14, 1919, arriving at Newport News, 
May 22. Hon. dis., May 31, 1919. 
Present address — Chester St., Andover, Mass. 

SHEVLIN, JOHN JOSEPH: 

Born, Oct. 20, 1889, Everett, Mass.; enl., Sept. 8, 1917. Y. D., 102nd M. G. Bn. Chemin- 
des- Dames sector, Feb. 7-Mar. 18, 1918; Toul sector, Apr. 2-June 26, 1918; Chateau Thier- 
ry Sector, July 7-July 18, 1918; Aisne-Marne, July 18-24, 1918; Troyon sector, Sept. 19- 
Oct. 6, 1918; Meuse-Argonne, Oct. 16-Nov. 11, 1918. Received citation from Gen'l Ed- 
wards for gallant conduct and devotion to duty in the Second Battle of the Marne, July 
18-25, 1918. Made Wagoner Sept. 16, 1917. Wounded, July 24, 1918. Hon.dis., Apr. 29, 
1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — Center St., Ballardvale, Mass. 

SHORTEN, CHRISTOPHER EDWARD: 

Born, Nov. 21, 1893, Ireland; enl., July 11, 1917. Med. Dept., Fort Ethan Allen, Vt., and 
at Hempstead, L. I., N. Y. Made Priv. 1st cl., Oct., 1917; Sgt., Mar., 1918; Sgt., 1st cl., 
Nov. 1918. Hon. dis., Jan. 20, 1919, Hempstead, L. I., N. Y. 
Present address — 43 Highland road, Andover, Mass. 

SHORTEN, HERBERT E.: 

Born in Ireland, June 11, 1898; enl. Nov. 4, 1917; Camp Lee, Machine Gun Bat.; hon. dis., 

Nov. 15, 1918. 

Present address — 53 Abbot St., Andover, Mass. 



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SHORTEN, HENRY J.: 

Born in Ireland, Aug. 20. 1886- enl Sf>n<- 9i 1017 

42nd Div. at C;mpDev;ns sailed from t?^t'' f"\lZ^ '° ^°- ^' ^^^nd M. G. Bat. 
1919; transferred to Motorfratport s"rv^^^^ '"''' 'f'"^ ^''""^ ^-"-' ^^^^ 21. 

transferred to 147th M. G. Bat Co C 3^ Bat 1 SI ?n Vf ' ""^'' ^'■°"' "^^'^ ^^^^un 
Camp Devens. ' ' "^"^"^ ^^^■' ^^^'* '^^ B- : Hon. dis., March 14, 1919, at 

Present address — 53 Abbot St., Andover, Mass. 

SHORTEN, WALTER R. : 

Born in Ireland, Nov. 5. 1897- enl Ano- 1 ioiq 

R. R.; transferr;d to 4i;t D^^v' A.'e F^ at ach^dT^^^^^^^^ ^.^"^'■y- '^^ ^o., F. A.. 

2^th Casual Co.; returned wit'h 502nd Ca^Co m' 22 m9h"^^^^^^ 

Devens, May 22, 1919. ' ^ '^'^' ^^^^' "o"- dis., from Camp 

Present address - 53 Abbot St., Andover, Mass. 

SIDES, WINFIELD MICHAEL: 

Born, Apr. 18, 1893, Middletown, Conn.; enl. Feb 1 1918 2d O T Q q t 
Rico; com.. May 27, 1918, as 1st Lt Inf • as Co R ^jIai' ? d ' ^^ S-' ^^" J"^"' ^^^0 
6, 1918, at San Juan, Porio Rico ' ^^^'"^ ^"^^ ^^''^^ ^'^^^ ^on. dis., Dec. 

Present address — Andover, Mass, 

SIMPSON, GEORGE WILLIAM: 

Born, Andover, Nov. 6, 1888; enl., Oct 1918 O T r r i xr .. 

Nov. 9, 1918. ' ' ^^' ^- ^- ^■' C^"iP Lee, Va.; died of pneumonia, 

SKEA, CHARLES: 

Present address— 17 Pearson St., Andover, Mass. 
SM ALLEY, CLARENCE: 

fut lrm9''''' ''''''''' *° ^•^- ^^^ ^"b-"- Base, East Boston. Mass.; hon. dis.. 
Present address - 20 Brechin Terrace, Andover, Mass. 

SMITH, COURTNEY A.: 

s'^ek wlrX'^rF: ^s'i'fhf Urji3t\° "T-^F' ""=' ^- a.. 26th Division; 
Sept. 22, 1918; sailed from Brest' March 30 r^ro ^'"- *,; ""*■ ^'"""^ ^' ^e Havre 

at Chtteau.Thierry, St. Mih el Offe^Le and «;,"■" a"'""' '*°'L°"' '^P"' '»• ■'"■ '""sh 
Present address -?32 Shawsheen RTrAnd„v"!Mast:'°°"" "°°- *"• "'"' '"■ ">">■ 

SMITH, FRANK L: 

For, Sill; atuched to-.4th F A 01/ H? Ton'd""?' '" -T'' I?''^ Artillery SchoSr:^ 
Present address- 23 Green St ; Sever"' Mass' " "'" '^'"'■' '""• 



214 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

SMITH, HORACE HALE: 

Born, May 28, 1873, Dorchester, Mass.; enl., Apr. 7, 1917 as Chief Boatswain's Mate. 
Summer of 1917, in command of U. S. S. Relief, Bumpkin Is. Ferry; Winter, 1917-'18, 
command U. S. Patchogue, Bumpkin Is. and New London Ferry; summer 1918, command 
U. S. S. Shad, Boston Bay Patrol; winter, 19 18-' 19, U. S. S. Shark and U. S. S. Stinger, 
Boston Harbor; also executive of U.S. S. Machigonne, and Edithena, Boston Harbor; CD. 
36 and C. D. 50, Shelburne, U. S., Boothbay and Portland, Me. Designer of U. S. S. Crane 
Scow Marian, Boston Navy Yard. Made Boatswain, May, 1918, confirmed, Nov. 1919. 
Hon. dis., Apr. 7, 1921. 
Present address — Lupin Hill, Andover, Mass. 

SMITH, WILLIAM: 

Born in Keithley, Eng. ; enl. as bombardier with 27th Battery, R. F. A. ; served with A. E. F. 
about three years; fought in all the big battles of the war; wounded six times and gassed 
twice in action. 
Present address — Buxton Court, Andover, Mass. 

SPARKS, DOUGLAS E.: 

Born, Sept. 16, 1893, Andover, Mass.; enl., Sept. 6, 1918. 11th Co. 151st Depot Brigade, 
Camp Devens, Apr. 29 to May 8, 1918; 106th Co., 26th Bn., Syracuse Recruit Camp, N. Y,, 
Sept. 6 to Sept. 18, 1918, Syracuse Recruit Camp. Hon. dis. Sept. 18, 1918. 
Present address — 153 No. Main St., Andover, Mass. 

SPARKS, JAMES: 

Born, Oct. 31, 1886, Arbroath, Scotland; enl., Sept. 21, 1917. Co. B, 302 M. G. B., 76th 
Div., Sept. 21, 1917 to Nov. 8, 1918; Co. B, 147 M. G. B., 41st Div. to Jan. 1, 1919; 4th Co. 
M G Replacement units till Mar. 14, 1919; Construction Bat. 4th Co. until Apr. 12, 1919; 
Headquarters Sales Commissary Q. M. C. till June 22, 1919; A Casual Co. to July 23, 1919. 
Sailed overseas July 8, 1918; returned July 17, 1919. Made Corp. Sept. 15, 1918. Hon. 
dis., July 23, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address— 153 No. Main St., Andover, Mass. 

SPECTOR, MAX J.: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — 50 Summer St., Andover, Mass. 

SPECTOR, MORRIS A.: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — 50 Summer St., Andover, Mass. 

SPENCER, WESLEY GAFFIELD: 

Born, July 16, 1898, Puebla, Mexico; enl., Aug. 10, 1918, S. A. T. C. Camp, Plattsburg 
Barracks, New York. Com. 2nd Lt. Inf., Sept. 16, 1918. Reported for duty Hd'qtrs. 
S. A.T. C, Colum.bia University, N. Y. C. Sept. 26, 1918, second in command "E" Com- 
pany. Hon. dis., Dec. 16, 1918, Governors Island. 
Present address — Palmer Mill, Three Rivers, Mass. 

SPINNEY, JULIA B.: 

Born, Yarmouth, N. S.; enl. May 28, 1918 as Red Cross Nurse; assigned to Camp Shelby, 
Hattiesburg, Mississippi; sailed from New York Dec. 8, 1919 arriving at Bordeaux Dec. 20 
sailed from Brest July 12, 1919, arriving at New York July 19. Hon. dis., Aug. 2, 1919. 
Present address — 406 No. Main St., Andover, Mass. 



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STACK, JOHN JOSEPH: 

Born, June 1, 1895, Andover, Mass.; enl., Oct. 23, 1917. Bat. F, 55th C. A. C, Oct. 23, 
1917 to May 2, 1918. Bat. B, 119th F. A., May 2, 1918 to Aug. 31, 1918. Wounded by 
shrapnel in right leg at Juvigny, north of Soissons, Aug. 31, 1918. In camp Hosp. No. 4, 
Paris, from Sept. 2, 1918 till Dec. 14, 1918. Transferred to Base Hosp. 108 and there 
till Mar. 23, 1919. Served in France from Mar. 24, 1918 to Apr. 20, 1919 (Northwest 
of Toul sector, Alsace sector, Marne offensive). Made Priv. 1st cl., July 4, 1918. Hon. 
dis.. May 2, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 39 Pearson St., Andover, Mass. 

STACK, ROBERTA.: 

Born, Andover, Mass.; inducted June 27, 1918; assigned to Camp Dix, N. J.; Battery^F, 
336th F. A., 87th Division; served with A. E. F. six months; sailed from Hoboken Aug. 27, 
1918, arriving at Bordeaux Sept. 3; sailed from Bordeaux Feb. 22, 1919, arriving at 
Newport News, Va., Mar. 8. Hon. dis., March 21, 1919. 
Present address — 20 Summer St., Andover, Mass. 

STACKPOLE, MARKHAM W.: 

Born, June 5, 1873, Westborough, Mass.; enl., July 25, 1917 as 1st Lt. (Chaplain). 102nd 
F. A., July 25, '17 to Oct. 27, '18, and from Mar. 20, '19 to Apr. 29, '19. Hd'qtrs Base 
Sec. No. 1, St. Nazaire, France, Oct. 30, '18 to Nov. 22, '18. Hd'qtrs. Base Sec. No. 6, 
Marseilles, Nov. 24, '18 to Mar. 18, '19. Camp Curtis Guild, Boxford, Mass., July 27 to 
Sept. 21, '17. Sailed for France Sept. 23, '17. Camp Coetquidan, Oct. 17, '17 to Feb. 2, 
'18; Chemindes Dames Sector, Feb. 4, '18 to Mar. 20, '18; Toul Sector, Apr. May and June, 
'18; Chateau Thierry defensive and offensive, July 6, -Aug. 4, '18; St. Mihiel offensive, Sept. 
5 to Oct. 11, '18; Meuse, Oct. 18-Oct. 27, '18; Assoc. Base Chaplain at St. Nazaire, Oct. 30- 
Nov. 22, '18; Senior Base Chaplain, Marseilles, Nov. 24, '18-Mar. 18, '19. Made Captain 
Mar. 21, 1919. Received Croix de Guerre, 1919. Hon. dis., Apr. 29, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 189 Main St., Andover, Mass. 

STAFFORD, PHILIP HENRY: 

Born, June 2, 1892, Melrose, Mass.; enl., Dec. 11, 1917. 317th Field Signal Bn., Camp Dev- 
ens, Dec. 11. 1917-May 4, 1918; Signal Corps, Officers Training School, Camp Morse, Texas, 
May 4-Aug. 26, 1918; 13th Service Bn., Camp Vail, N. J., Aug. 26-Oct. 21, 1918; Person- 
nel Div., Office of Chief Signal Officer, Washington, D. C, Oct. 21, 1918. Made Priv. 1st 
cl., Jan. 1, 1918; Corp., Feb. 1, 1918; Sgt., Mar. 1, 1918; 2nd Lt., Aug. 26, 1918. Hon. 
dis., Dec. 21, 1918. 
Present address — 76 Grant St., Lynn, Mass. 

STAFFORD, ROBERT W.: 

Born, Brooklyn, N. Y.;enl. Apr. 5, 1918; Sergeant, 16th Co., Quartermaster Corps, Camp 

Meigs; assigned to Quartermaster Gen's Office at Washington, D. C. Hon. dis., Dec. 14, 

1918. 

Present address — Tewksbury St., Ballardvale, Mass. 

STARK, HAROLD BARRETT: 

Born, Feb. 5, 1897, Ballardvale, Mass.; enl., Oct. 21, 1918. 10th Co. U. S. C. A. C, Ft. 
McKinley, Portland, Maine. Hon. dis., Apr. 1, 1919, Ft. McKinley. 
Present address — Centre St., Ballardvale, Mass. 

STEARNS, WILBUR A.: 

Born, Derry, N. H.; enl. May 18, 1917 in Lawrence; assigned to Fort Slocum, N. Y., Co. 7, 
F. A. Div. Corp. H'dq'rs.; served with A. E. F. from July, 1917 to Sept., 1919; sailed from 
Hoboken, July 29, 1917, arriving at St. Nazaire Aug. 13; sailed from Brest, Sept. 1, 1919, 
arriving at Hoboken Sept. 6; engaged in the following battles and campaigns: Luneville 



216 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

Def. Oct. 21 to Nov. 20, 1917. Toul Sec, Montdidier, Noyon, April 23 to July 7, 1918, 
Aisne-Marne, July 18-24, 1918; St. Mihiel, Sept. 12-13, 1918; Meuse-Argonne, Oct. 1 to 
Nov. 8, 1918; Army of Occupation, Nov. 17, 1919, to Sept., 1919. Hon. dis., Sept. 
25, 1919. 
Present address — Haverhill St., Andover, Mass. 

STEED, WILLIAM: 

Born, Lawrence, Mass.; inducted Sept. 2, 1918; assigned to Camp Upton, N. Y. ; discharged 
from Camp Upton, Sept. 9, 1918, for physical disability. 
Present address — Center St., Ballard vale, Mass. 

STEVENS. ALBERT EDWARD: 

Enl. Aug. 8, 1918; received training at Paris Island, S. C; served with 15th Separate Batt., 
U. S. Marines, in France from June 8, 1919 to Dec. 30, 1919; hon. dis. Dec. 30, 1919. 
Present address — 49 Bartlet St., Andover, Mass. 

STEVENS, GEORGE K.: 

Born, Lawrence, Mass.; inducted Oct. 5, 1917; assigned to 151st Depot Brigade at Camp 
Devens; served with A. E. F. 12 months; sailed from Hoboken March 12, 1918, arriving 
at Brest, March 20; sailed from Brest March 12, 1919, arriving at Hoboken March 24, 1919; 
transferred to Replacement Squad Infantry; returned as a Casual. Hon. dis., April 6, 1919. 
Present address — 61 Highland Road, Andover, Mass. 

STEWART, ALEXANDER WILSON: 

Born, Dundee, Scotland; enl. March 1, 1918; assigned to Training Co. No. 3 at Jackson- 
ville, Fla.; transferred to Detachment Service, Philadelphia, as Inspector. Hon. dis., 
Dec. 23, 1918. 
Present address — 120 No. Main St., Andover, Mass. 

STEWART, JOSEPH THOMAS: 

Born, June 29, 1892, Andover, Mass. ; enl., June 23, 1918. 108th Spruce Squadron, Vancou- 
ver Barracks, Vancouver, Wash., June 23, 1918-Jan. 10, 1919. Left Vancouver and went to 
Montesano, Wash., July 25, 1918. There until Nov. 5, 1919 and sent back to Vancouver. 
Hon. dis., Jan. 10, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 3 Moraine St., Andover, Mass. 

STICKNEY, WALTER EZEKIEL: 

Born, Ballardvale, Mass.; specially inducted July 15, 1918; assigned to U. S. Army Training 
Detachment at Springfield, Mass. ; served as cook for 6 weeks, then as Post Carpenter until 
discharged; transferred to 4th Co. C. A. C, Fort Warren, then to 7th Co. C. A. C, Ft. 
Warren. Hon. dis. Dec. 9, 1918. 
Present address — Ballardvale, Mass, 

STONE, VAN ZANDT: 

Enl. Aug. 11, 1917 in R. F. C; com. as cadet, 2nd Lieutenant, Nov. 15, 1917; Pro. Feb. 
1918, to be 1st Lt., and Flight Com., R. A. F.; in service overseas; hon. dis., Apr., 1919. 
Present address — Andover, Mass. 

STORK, WILLIAM BOTELIER 

Enl., Apr. 22, 1897, as Machinist, 2d CI., U. S. N.; pro. to be Machinist, 1st cl., Ch. 
Machinist, Warrant Machinist; com.. Mar. 3, 1919, as. Ch. Machinist; pro., July 1, 1917, 
to be Ens.; Oct. 15, 1917, to be Lt., j. g.; July 1, 1918, to be Lt., U. S. N.; still in service 
with U. S. N. 



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STROUT, JOHN WILLIAM: 

Born, Mar. 2, 1889, Bridgton, Maine; enl., July 8, 1918 as Priv. 1st cl. Ft. Slocum, July 8- 
July 11, '18, in 7th Co. Del. Def., July U-Aug. 19, '18. Bat. B, 48th Art., C. A. C, Aug. 19, 
'18-Apr. 11, '19. Left for France Oct. 7, 1918, returned Mar. 24, 1919. Hon. dis., Apr. 11, 
1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 202 No. Main St., Andover, Mass. 

STROUT, WALTER EDWIN: 

Born, Apr. 19, 1896, Hillsboro, N. H.; enl., Sept. 7, 1917. Co. A, 102nd M. G. B. from Sept., 
1917 to Apr. 29, 1919. Sailed for France Sept. 21, 1917, returning Apr. 17, 1919. In battle 
of Seicheprey, 2nd Battle of Marne, St. Mihiel offensive, and Meuse-Argonne, offensives. 
Hon. dis., Apr. 29, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 25 Sargent St., No. Andover, Mass. 

SULLIVAN, JOHN JAMES: 

Born, Nov. 6, 1892, Andover, Mass.; enl., Dec. 12, 1917. Receiving Co. 26, Camp Joseph E. 
Johnston, Fla., Dec. 18, 1917-Dec. 31, 1917; Provisional Field Remount Co. No. 1, Jan. 1- 
Mar. 31, 1918; Hd'qtrs. Co., Receiving Camp, Apr. 1-Nov. 5, 1918. Commissioned Officer, 
Hd'qtrs. Detachment, Camp Joseph E. Johnston, Fla., Nov. 6, 1918-Jan. 15, 1919. Made 
Sgt., Mar. 1, 1918; Q. M. Sgt., July 17, 1918; 2nd Lt., Nov. 6, 1918; 1st Lt. Q. M. C, Nov. 
9, 1918. Hon. dis., Jan. 15, 1919, Camp Joseph E. Johnston. 
Present address — 49 Red Spring Road, Andover, Mass. 

SULLIVAN, T. P.: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — 49 Red Spring Road, Andover, Mass. 

SUTHERLAND, ALEXANDER DONALD: 

Born, May 6, 1893, Brookline, Mass.; enl., Apr. 12, 1917 as Seaman. U. S. S. Bridge, May- 
July, 1917; U. S. S. Texas, July, 1917-Feb. 1918, Scapa Flow, Scotland. Made 3rd Class 
Boatswain's Mate, Feb., 1918; 2nd Class Boatswain's Mate, Apr., 1918; 1st Cl. Boatswain's 
Mate, May, 1918; Chief Boatswain's Mate, July, 1918. Director of athletics in first naval 
district from March to Nov., 1918. Sustained torn muscles in the back. Hon. dis., Dec. 12, 
1918. 
Present address — Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. 

SYMONDS, GEORGE FRANKLIN: 

Born, Dec. 11, 1898, Andover, Mass.; enl., Apr. 16, 1917. With Bat. F, 102nd F. A. 
from Apr. 16, 1917 to Apr. 29, 1919. Served overseas from Oct. 12, 1917 to Mar. 31, 1919. 
Operations engaged in: Seicheprey, Apr. 20, 1918; Xivray, June 26, 1918; Second Battle of 
Marne, July 18, 1918; St. Mihiel, Sept. 12, 1918; and Argonne-Meuse, Oct. 12, 1918. Made 
Priv. 1st cl. in March, 1918. Hon. dis., Apr. 29, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 81 Central St., Andover, Mass. 

SYMONDS, JOHN WILLIAM : 

Born, Andover, 1891 ; enl., Dec. 16, 1916 in Regular Army at Fort Slocum, having previously 
been 4 years in U. S. Marine Corps; hon. dis.. Ordnance Serg't. Oct. 19, 1918, S. C. D. 

TAYLOR, THOMAS D.: 

Born, Sept. 1, 1892, Lawrence, Mass.; enl., Aug. 10, 1917 as M. M. 2nd cl., on U. S. S. 
Delaware. Went overseas Nov. 24, 1917, returned Aug. 12, 1918. Hon. dis., Aug. 7, 1919, 
Rockport, Mass. 
Present address — 352 No. Main St., Andover, Mass. 



218 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

TEMPLE, KIRKE GODFREY: 

Born, May 21, 1896 in Reading, Mass.; enl. April 16, 1917 at Lowell, Mass.; assigned to 
Battery F, 102nd F. A., 26th Div.; Oct. 10, 1918 enl. in Motor Transport Corps and was 
waiting call for active duty when armistice was signed; hon. dis., Aug. 2, 1917, from Camp 
Curtis Guild, Boxford, Mass. 
Present address — 228 Highland Road, Andover, Mass. 

THOMAS, WALTER F.: 

Born, Dec. 28, 1888, Melrose, Mass.; enl.. May 6, 1916 with 8th Mass. Inf. N. G., Co. L, 
Lawrence, Mass. On the Mexican Border five mos. O. T. C, Plattsburg Barracks, N. Y., 
May 14, 1917. U. S. Air Service, M. L T., Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 15, 1917. Sailed for 
France May 18 — Issoudun, Tours, St. Jean de Monts, Chatillon-sur- Seine. Returned to 
U.S. Apr. 26, 1919. Made Reg't. Supply Sgt., 8th Mass. Inf., N. G., July 3, 1916; Cadet, 
Plattsburg and U.S. Air Service, May 14, 1917; com. 2nd Lt., R. M. Aviator, U. S. Air Serv- 
ice, Mar. 22, 1918. Hon. dis., Apr. 29, 1919, Mitchel Field, L. I., N. Y. 
Present address — % Goodyear India Rubber Glove Co., Naugatuck, Conn. 

THOMPSON, CHARLES DUNNING: 

Born, Feb. 3, 1887, Honesdale, Pa.; com., Aug., 1918, as 2ndLt., Air Service Production. 

Hon.dis., Dec.23, 1918. 

Present address — Andover, Mass. 

THOMSON, PHILIP WINGATE: 

Born, Apr. 6, 1880, Andover, Mass.; enl.. May, 1917 as Candidate in R. O. T. C; Aug. 1917 

as 2nd Lt. with 76th Div. Hd'qtrs. at Camp Devens and in France. Sailed overseas July 

5, 1918, returned Jan. 5, 1919. Made Capt., May, 1918. Hon. dis., Jan. 7, 1919, Hoboken, 

N.J. 

Present address — Andover, Mass. 

TOWLE, GERALD: 

Born, Apr. 21, 1896, Haverhill, Mass.; enl.. May 14, 1917 as Flying Cadet. Plattsburg 
Barracks May 14-Aug. 15, 1917; Ft. Omaha, (Balloon School) Oct. 15; San Antonio, Texas, 
Jan. 1, 1918. Awarded license as Free Balloon Pilot. Rec'd rating as Aerial Observer. 
Placed on flying pay status. Flew in planes and balloon about 600 hours during service. 
Made 2nd Lt., U. S. Air Service, March, 1918. Hon. dis., Dec. 31, 1918, Camp John Wise, 
Texas. Present address — Porter Road, Andover, Mass. 

TRAUTMANN, WALTER: 

Born, Mar. 10, 1897, Ballardvale, Mass.; enl., Aug. 15, 1918, Bat. C, 28th Art., C.A.C., 
Boston. Hon. dis., Dec. 14, 1918, Ft. Andrews, Mass. 
Present address — 2 Grove St., Lawrence, Mass. 

TROW, HENRY JOSEPH: 

Born, Meriden, Conn. Inducted May 28, 1918; assigned to Camp Devens; Co. E, 303rd 
Inf. Hon. dis., Dec. 3, 1918. 
Present address — Ballardvale, Mass. 

TUCKER, PATRICK J.: 

Born, July 15, 1898, St. John, Newfoundland; enl., Sept. 1, 1918, Co. F, 315th Engrs. 
Sailed for France July 14, 1918, returned Feb. 4, 1919. In action at Verdun and Chateau 
Thierry. Wounded in right thigh and right shoulder, Oct. 28, 1918, at Chateau Thierry. 
Hon. dis., Feb., 1919, Camp Devens, Mass. 
Present address — 70 No. Main St., Andover, Mass. 

TUCKER, ROBERTS.: 

Enl., 1917, 23d Engineers; overseas; hon. dis., 1919. 



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TYLER, ARCHIBALD LOUIS: 

Born, May 21, 1893, Andover, Mass.; enl., June 26, 1917 in U. S. N. R. F. as Ship's Cook, 
2nd cl. Assigned to active duty at Receiving Ship in Boston, Oct. 13, 1917. Transferred 
from R. S. at Boston to Sub-Chaser No. 254, Oct. 23, 1917. Transferred from Sub-Chaser 
to R. S. at Boston, Nov. 16, 1917. Transferred from R. S. to Naval Detention Camp at 
Deer Island, Mass., Jan. 4, 1918. Transferred from Detention Camp to R. S. at Boston, 
Feb. 21, 1918. Transferred from R. S. to Boston Base Hd'qtrs Apr. 5, 1918. Transferred from 
Boston Base Hd'qtrs to U. S. S. Aroostook, May 28, 1918. Released from U. S. S. Aroos- 
took at Hampton Roads, Va., Dec. 31, 1918. Service on the Aroostook: — Left Boston June 
16th, arrived at Invergordon, Scotland, Base 18, July 3, 1918. Engaged in laying mines 
from Norway to Orkney Islands in the North Sea from July 12, 1918 to Nov. 11, 1918. 
Passed in review of British Grand Fleet and surrendered German Fleet Nov. 13, 1918. 
Left Portland, England, Dec. 18, 1918, for U. S., via Azores and Bermuda. Released from 
active duty, Dec. 31, 1918. 
Present address — (Residence) East Hebron, N. H. (Post-office) Bridgewater, N. H. 

TYLER, GEORGE FREDERIC: 

Born, June 12, 1890, Andover, Mass.; enl.. May 30, 1918. 37th Co., 10th Bn., 166 D. B. 
Hon. dis., June 26, 1918, Camp Lewis, Washington. 
Present address — 20 Washington St., Andover, Mass. 

TYER, HENRY GEORGE: 

Born, Feb. 5, 1885, Andover, Mass.; enl., Oct. 22, 1918, F. A. Central Officers' Training 
School, Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky. Hon. dis., Dec. 1, 1918. 
Present address — Ballardvale Road, Andover, Mass. 

VALPEY, FRANK D.R.: 

Born, July 31, 1889, Lawrence, Mass.; enl., Oct. 4, 1917. Bat. F, 319th F. A. (Hy.), Oct. 28, 
1917-May 21, 1919. Left U.S. May 19, 1917, returned May 13, 1919. In Morbache sec- 
tor, St. Mihiel, Argonne, and Argonne-Meuse. Made Corp. Feb., 1918. Hon. dis., May 21, 
1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 131 Elm St., Andover, Mass. 

VALENTINE, ALEX B.: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present addresss — 72 Essex St., Andover, Mass. 

VALENTINE, JAMES: 

Born, Oct. 12, 1898, Arbroath, Scotland; enl. Mar. 7, 1917; assigned to Co.L, 104th Infantry, 
at Westfield, Mass.; served with A. E. F. 18 months; sailed from Montreal, Sept. 27, 1917, 
arriving at Liverpool Oct. 5; sailed from Brest, March 21, 1919, arriving at Boston April 4; 
received grenade wound in right knee and left foot, April 10, 1918. Hon. dis. May 2, 1919. 
Present address — 22 Brechin Terrace, Andover, Mass. 

VANNETT, EDWARD: 

Born, Jan. 28, 1895, Arbroath, Scotland; enl., Sept. 21, 1917. Went overseas July 8, 1919. 
Served with 302nd M. G., 76th Div., 116th Supply Train. Hon. dis., Feb. 26, 1920, as 
Pvt. 1st cl.. Camp Dix, N. J. 
Present address — 27 Chestnut St., Andover, Mass. 

WADE, K. EARL: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 



220 ANDOVER IN THE WORLD WAR 

WAINWRIGHT, STUART FREDERICK: 

Born, Jan. 16, 1893, Lawrence, Mass.; enl., Dec. 27, 1917 as Warrant Gunner (electrical) 
U. S. N. R. F. Electrical and Radio officer on Mine Layer U. S. S. Aroostook in North Sea, 
June to December, 1918 — Basing at Invergordon and Inverness, Scotland. Com. Ensign in 
July, 1919. Placed on inactive list, U. S. N. R. F., Nov. 4, 1919, San Diego, Calif. 
Present address — 1926 Delta St., Los Angeles, Calif. 

WALDIE, DAVID: 

Born, Sept. 10, 1880, Montrose, Scotland; enl., Jan. 16, 1916. 9th Siege Howitzer Artillery, 
9th Div., 2nd Army. Sailed for France May 3, 1915, returned Sept. 24, 1918. 2nd Battle 
Ypres, Apr. 12, 1915. Festubert, May 16, 1915. Loos, Sept. 10-16, 1915. Operations lead- 
ing to Battle Somme, Jan. -Mar., 1917, including Somme Battles. July, Gomecourt, Theip- 
val,Fricourt, Montaban, Mamets.TronesWood.Contralmaison. Transferred to Tank Corps, 
3rd Army, Sept. 15, 1916. Battles Martinpouch, Combles, Le Transloy, Beaumont-Hamel, 
Arras, lasting 4 days, Apr., 1917. Messine Ridge, June 7, 1917. Paschendale and St. Julian 
(Ypres sector), Sept. and Oct., 1917. Cambrai, Dec, 1917. Ypres, Messines, Armentieres; 
Jan. -May, 1918. Amiens, Villers-Bretoneaux, Bapaume, Perone; May-Sept., 1918. Made 
Corp., Mar. 5, 1915; Lance Sgt., Oct., 1915; Full Sgt., Dec. 1915. Acting Sgt. Maj., Oct., 
1916; Acting Regimental Sgt. Major, Mar., 1917. Wounded in the arm and leg and gassed 
twice. Awarded Distinguished Conduct Medal, Oct., 1916. Hon. dis., June 1, 1919, as Sgt., 
at Edinburgh, Scotland. 
Present address — 6 Brechin Terrace, Andover, Mass. 

WALLWORTH, THOMAS: 

Born in England; inducted May 27, 1918; assigned to Depot Brigade at Camp Upton, N. 
Y.; transferred to 121st Field Artillery; served with A. E. F. 103/2 months; sailed from 
Boston July 6, 1918, arriving at London July 18; sailed from Brest April 30, 1919, arriving at 
Boston May 12; engaged in the following battles: Chateau-Thierry, Soissons, Meuse, 
Guvigny Sector, St. Mihiel, Argonne Forrest. Hon. dis., May 16, 1919. 
Present address — 80 Haverhill St., Andover, Mass. 

WALSH, GEORGE DAVID: 

Born, Mar. 7, 1887, Andover, Mass.; enl., Aug. 14, 1918. Franklin Union U. S. Army Train- 
ing Detachment, Boston, Mass. Made Sgt. Vocational Instructor, Sept. 10, 1918. Hon. 
dis., Dec. 20, 1918, Boston, Mass. 
Present address — 11 Brook St., Andover, Mass. 

WARD, CHARLES LAKEMAN: 

Born, Dec. 3, 1895, Brookline, Mass.; enl.. May 12, 1917, Candidate First O. T. C, Platts- 
burg, N. Y. 301st Inf., Camp Devens, Mass., Aug., 1917 to Mar., 1918. Aviation Ground 
Schools (Austin, Texas and Princeton, N. J.), Mar. to July, 1918. Flying Fields, (Chanute, 
111, and Love, Texas) July to Dec, 1918. Com. 2nd. Lt. Inf., Aug. 15, 1917; Reserve Mili- 
tary Aviator, October, 1918. Hon. dis., Dec. 13, 1918, 2nd Lt. Inf., R. M. A., Love Field, 
Texas. 
Present address — Noke Farm, Prospect Hill, Andover, Mass. 

WARD, PAUL ANTHONY: 

Born, Oct. 12, 1893, Andover, Mass.; enl., July 13, 1918, C. A. C, Fort Adams, R. I.;hon. 

dis., Dec 19, 1918. 

Present address — Highland Road, Andover, Mass. 

WATSON, JOSEPH W.: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — 11 Highland Road, Andover, Mass. 



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WEBSTER, GUY: 

Born, Lawrence, Mass.; enl. July 25, 1917; assigned to Battery F, 102nd Field Artillery at 
Boxford, Mass.; transferred to Army Artillery Headquarters 1st Army, Barshuraube, 
France; to 1st Anti Air Craft Battery, Sth Anti Air Craft Sector; served with A. E. F. 16 
months; sailed from U. S. Sept. 21, 1917, arriving at St. Nazaire; sailed from Brest Dec. 
31, 1919, arriving Hoboken, Jan. 12, 1919. Hon. dis., Jan. 20, 1919. 
Present address — Elm St., Andover, Mass. 

WELCH, JAMES FRANCIS: 

Born, Jan. 25, 1895, Andover, Mass.; enl., Oct. 5, 1917. 18th Co., Camp Devens, Oct. 5-14, 
1917; 326 Inf., 82nd Div., Co. M, Camp Gordon, Ga., Oct. 17, 1917 to Nov. 1, 1918. Offi- 
cers Inf. School, Langres, France, Nov. 1, 1918 to Jan. 1, 1919. 133rd Co. Trans. Corp., 
Feb. 25 to Aug. 1, 1919. Operations — one month with British on Somme, Toul Sector, 
Maubache Sector, St. Mihiel,and Meuse-Argonne. Made Corp. Nov. 15, 1917; Sgt., Jan. 
1, 1918; 2nd Lt., Feb. 25, 1919. Hon. dis., Apr. 15, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 74 Summer St., Andover, Mass. 

WELCH, WILLIAM HAROLD: 

Enl. May 30, 1918 in Quartermaster Dept., Boston, Mass.; hon. dis., March 26, 1919, at 

Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga. 

Present address — 58 Summer St., Andover, Mass. 

WELLS, HAROLD FRANCIS: 

Born, May 13, 1897, Lawrence, Mass.; enl., Aug. 29, 1918. 13th Co., 153rd D. B. . Aug. 29- 
Sept. 6, 1918. Co. A, 133rd Inf., Sept. 6-Oct. 23, 1918. Co. I, 164th Inf., Oct. 23-Oct. 28, 
1918. Hd'qtrs Troop, 41st Div., 14th Co. 4th Bn. 153rd D. B., Oct. 28, 1918-Feb. 11, 1919. 
Sailed overseas Sept. 16, 1918, arriving in France, via England, Oct. 8, 1918. Went south, 
from Cherbourg to Bordeaux, near the Spanish border. On Oct. 21st went to Classification 
Camp at St. Aignan-Noyes. Remained in St. Aignan in Hd'qtrs Tr. until Jan. 25, leaving 
there for Brest and sailing from Brest on Feb. 3, 1919. Hon. dis., Feb. 22, 1919, Camp Dix, 
N.J. 
Present address — Clark Road, Ballardvale, Mass. 

WHEELOCK, ARTHUR S.: 

Sailed for France Dec. 28, 1917 as Army Sec. of Y. M. C. A.; served with French 6th Army 
in charge of Foyer du Soldat work near Verdun front until June, 1918; com. Chaplain with 
rank of 1st Lt. June 18, 1918; attached to Field Hospital No. 23, A. E. F. July 1 to July 
15, 1918; attached to 23rd U. S. Inf. 2nd Div., July 15, 1918 to June 9, 1919; in the follow- 
ing engagements: Aisne-Marne, St. Mihiel, and Meuse-Argonne Offensives; cited for 
bravery during Meuse-Argonne offensive, Nov. 1-11, 1918; served with Army of Occupa- 
tion in Germany until May 25, 1919; hon. dis. at Camp Dix, N. J., June 9, 1919. 
Present address — Andover, Mass. 

WHIPP, HAROLD B.: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 

WHITE, CLYDE A.: 

Enl. April 16, 1917 at Providence, R. I. 1st Co. R. I. C. A. C. ; transferred to 101st Engineers^ 
Aug. 25, 1917; hon. dis., April 28, 1919, at Camp Devens, Mass. 
Present address — 59 Park St., Andover, Mass. 

WHITE, DONALD JOHN : 

Born, Feb. 10, 1896, Bridgton, Maine; enl., August, 1917. With Q. M. C. and Motor Truck 
Division. Made Corp. July 27, 1918. Hon. dis., March, 1918, Maifa, Texas. 
Present address — 1663 Western Ave., Detroit, Mich. 



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WHITTEMORE, HELEN AGNES: 

Born, Jan. 17, 1882, Long Island, N. Y.; enh. May 18, 1918, as Hospital Nurse; as. Unit 56, 
Camp Wheeler, Macon, Georgia; sailed for France, Sept. 1918; returned, Aug., 1919; served 
at hospitals in Chalons-sur-Saone and Savenay; still in service; term expires Aug., 1922. 

WHITE, HAROLD: 

Enl., 1917, Co. C. 103d Inf., 26th Div., A. E. F.; wounded; hon. dis., April, 1919. 

WHITE, WINTHROP KIRK: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 
Present address — Reservation Road, Andover, Mass. 

WHITMAN, GORDON ELLIOTT: 

Born, June 4, 1893, Andover, Mass.; enl.. May 6, 1918 as Seaman, 2nd cl. Served at New- 
port and Nantucket. Placed on inactive duty, Dec. 13, 1918, Nantucket, Mass. 
Present address — 88 Brook St., Brookline, Mass. 

WHITNEY, HARRY EDWARD: 

Enl. May 27, 1918; served in Signal Corps; transferred to Headquarters, Oct. 10, 1919; hon. 

dis., Jan. 20, 1919. 

Present address — 23 Highland Road, Andover, Mass. 

WHITTEN, HOWARD GARFIELD: 

Born, Nov. 30, 1898, Andover, Mass.; enl., Jan. 8, 1918 as Seaman, U. S. N. Served on the 
Moccasin from March 15, 1918 until she was taken out of commission, June 1, 1919. Then 
sent to Bay Ridge Station, Brooklyn, N. Y. and shipped on the Kroonland on June 3, 1919, 
Present address — 15 Canton St., Lawrence, Mass. 

WILCOX, GEORGE WILLIAM: 

Born, June 13, 1895; enl., Oct. 4, 1917. 325th Inf. Hd'qtrs Co. Toul, June 26-Aug. 18, 
1918; St. Mihiel, Sept. 12-Sept. 16, 1918; Meuse-Argonne, Sept. 26-Nov. 3, 1918. Hon. 
dis.. May 26, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 164 Valley St., Willimantic, Conn. 

WILCOX, GILBERT M.: 

Born, Needham, Mass.; enl., Sept. 20, 1917. Troop "H", 2nd U. S. Cavalry from Sept. 20, 
1917 to July 5, 1919. Engaged in St. Mihiel Off. Sept. 12-16; Meuse-Argonne OflF., Sept. 
26, to Nov. 11, 1918. Served in A. E. F. from Mar. 22, 1918 to June 29, 1919. Gassed. 
Received Troop citation and decorations. Captured five Germans and made them prison- 
ers. These Germans were dressed in American uniform and had been firing from a camou- 
flaged dugout into Red Cross tents and Hd'qtrs for three days and nights. Made Priv. 
1st cl. Oct. 16, 1918. Hon. dis. July 5, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — ■ 43 Calvert Ave., Detroit, Mich. 

WILKINS, HAROLD STREET: 

Born, Dec. 4, 1883, Wallingford, Conn.; enl. June 25, 1917 as 1st Lt. U. S. R. Entire service 
with Ordnance Dept., dating from July 11, 1917. Made Capt. June 28, 1918. Com- 
missioned Capt., Regular Army, July 1, 1920., 
Present address — Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pa. 

WILSON, FREDERICK COLBURN: 

Born, Oct. 21, 1894, Andover, Mass.; enl., Apr. 29, 1918. 11th Co., 3rd Bn., 151st Depot 
Brigade (Camp Devens) April 29-June 15, 1918. C Co., 301st Field Signal Bn. (Camp Dev- 
ens), June 15th following. Sailed from Montreal July 11, 1918; landed at Cardiff, Wales, 
Winchester, Southampton, Cherbourg, Charenton (Cher), St. Yeosmes (Haute-Marne), St. 
Jean (Meurthe-et Moselle), Rogerville, St. Georges, Villerupt, Niederkorn (Luxemburg). 



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Sailed from Brest May 16, 1919, landed in Boston May 27, 1919. Made Priv. 1st cl. June 
21, 1918. Bn. attached overseas to 6th Army Corps Hd'qtrs (2nd Army) and served in 
construction and repairing of telephone lines, and in the operating of telephone exchanges. 
Hon. dis., July 2, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 34 Essex Street, Andover, Mass. 

WILSON, PEARL EDWARD: 

Born, May 12, 1893, Burlington, Vt.; enl. Oct. 19, 1917 as Corp. Enlisted Ft. Slocum, N.Y- 
Assigned 148th Aero Squadron, San Antonio, Texas. Arrived France (Le Havre) March 20, 
1918. Attached Royal Air Forces operating on Somme sector and Belgium. Hon. dis., 
Apr. 10, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — 54 Whittier St., Andover, Mass. 

WILSON, RAYMOND SIDNEY: 

Born, Apr. 11, 1897, West Rutland, Vt.; enl. May 30, 1918. Detachment Medical Dept., 
Fort Slocum, N. Y., May 30, '18-Aug. 11, '19. Made Priv. 1st cl. Aug. 1, 1919. Hon. dis., 
Aug. 11, 1919, Ft. Slocum. 
Present address — 54 Whittier St., Andover, Mass. 

WILLETTE, FRED JOSEPH: 

Enl. July 18, 1917 in Bat. A, 15th F. A.; hon. dis., Aug. 14, 1919. 
Present address — Ballardvale, Mass. 

WINTERS, JOHN FRANCIS: 

Born in Ireland; inducted Sept. 4, 1918; assigned to 20th Co., 152nd Depot Brigade, at Camp 

Upton. Hon. dis., Dec. 12, 1918. 

Present address — 9 Brechin Terrace, Andover, Mass. 

WINTERS, ROBERT JAMES: 

Born, April 9, 1896, Andover; enl., Oct. 23, 1918, private, 2d Mine Co., Fort Rodman, New 

Bedford; hon. dis., Dec. 13, 1918. 

Present address — 30 Salem Street, Andover. Mass. 

WOODBURY. ALBERT HAMILTON: 

Born, Hopkinton, Mass.; enl. June 1, 1917; assigned to Receiving Ship, Commonwealth 
Pier, Boston; transferred to U. S. S. Georgia, to Naval Hosp. Chelsea, to Receiving Ship 
N. Y., U. S. S. Lake-worth to Rec'g Ship at Boston, to U. S. S. Fulton, to U. S. S. L-5, to 
Base 13 Azores, to LI. S. S. Tonapah, to U. S. S. Culgoa, to Rec'g. Ship New York; sailed 
from Charlestown, S. C, Oct. 15, 1918 and reached Azores, Nov. 9, 1918; left Azores 
March 24, 1919, and landed at New York April 2, 1919. Released April 14, 1919. 
Present address — Holt Road, Andover, Mass. 

WOOD, CORNELIUS AYER: 

Born, Oct. 9, 1893, enl., June 7, 1897. C. P. O., U. S. N. R. F. June 15, Oct. 7, 1917, on 
board S. P. 1234, U. S. S. Cigarotte. Oct. 11, 1917, Feb. 1, 1918, U. S. Naval Academy 
Annapolis, Md. Feb. 8, June 8, Aid to Commandant, First Naval District. June 13 
Oct. 24, 1918, Asst. Gunnery Ofificer on U. S. S. Sierra, N. O. T. S. (overseas). Nov. 1 
Dec. 26, 1918. Listener's School, New London, Conn. Jan. 1, May 26, 1919, Dock Offi 
cer. State Pier, New London, Conn. Made Ensign, U. S. N. R. F., Sept. 21, 1917; En 
sign (T), U. S. N., Jan. 31, 1918; Lieut. (J. G.) U. S. N., Sept. 15, 1918. Hon. dis. 
May 26, 1919, New London, Conn. 
Present address — Andover, Mass. 

WOOD, WILLIAM MADISON, JR.: 

Born, Jan. 26, 1892, Andover, Mass.; enl., June, 1917 as Gunner's mate, 3rd cl. Hingham, 

Bumpkin Island, Wakefield and Harvard Ensign School. Hon. dis., Nov. 1, 1918, Boston, 

Mass. 

Present address — Andover, Mass. 



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WRIGHT, RAYMOND E.: 

Born, Jan. 27, 1889, Andover, Mass.; enl., July 10, 1917 as Sgt. Hon. dis., Apr. 20, 1919, 

Camp Devens. 

Present address — West Acton, Mass. 

WRIGHT, WILLIS GUERNSEY: 

Born, July 5, 1895, Andover, Mass.; enl., Aug. 10, 1917. Served with U. S. Marine Corps 
at Quantico, Va. from Nov. 20, 1917 to Dec. 20, 1917; at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from Dec. 
25, 1917 to Aug. 8, 1918; at Galveston, Texas, from Aug. 8, 1918 to Apr. 3, 1919. Hon. dis., 
Apr. 3, 1919, Galveston, Texas. 
Present address — Lovejoy Road, Andover, Mass. 

WRIGLEY, CLIFFORD S.: 

Enl. May 29, 1918; assigned to Ft. Slocum, N. Y.; hon. dis., June 6, 1918. 
Present address — Ballardvale, Mass. 

YORK, LEONARD T.: 

Born, Andover, Mass.; inducted Oct. 5, 1917; assigned to 328 MachineGun Co. at Camp 
Gordon; sailed from U. S. Apr. 4, 1918, arriving at Liverpool, May, 1918; left Brest Feb. 25, 
1919, landing at Boston, March 14, 1919; in the battles of Argonne and St. Mihiel; twice 
wounded, at Argonne and Ponmorsson, right hand and side. Hon. dis., March 17, 1919. 
Present address — Andover St., Andover, Mass. 

YOUNG, CHARLES A.: 

Born, Dundee, Scotland; Enl. Co. B, 101st Inf.; wounded at Chateau-Thierry; died from 
blood poisoning, Aug. 18, 1918. 

ZALLA, LEOB.: 

Inducted Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. Present address — 12 Elm Court, Andover, 

Mass. 

ZECCHINI, FRANCIS: 

Born, Aug. 28, 1888, Somerville, Mass.; enl.. Mar. 28, 1918. 151st Depot Brig., Camp 
Devens; 306th F. A., Bat. F, Camp Upton. Served with 306th F. A., Bat. F, in the A. E. F. 
from Apr. 24, 1918 to Apr. 29, 1919, 77th Div. Baccarat Sec, July 14-Aug. 11, 1918; Vesle 
Sec, Aug. 16-Aug. 18, 1918; Oise-Aisne Off., Aug. 18, Aug. 21, 1918; Meuse-Argonne, Sept. 
26-Nov. 11, 1918. Pro. to Priv., 1st cl. Gassed at Cherry Chartreuse and burned with 
mustard gas. Hon. dis.. May 10, 1919, Camp Devens. 
Present address — So. Main St., Andover, Mass. 

ZECCHINI, JOHN: 

Inducted, Nov. 9, 1918; hon. dis., Nov. 14, 1918. 

ZULLAS, MICHAEL PETER: 

Born, July 27, 1891, Parga, Greece; enl., Sept. 21, 1917 as Cook. Served in Co. B, 302nd M. 
G. Bn. from Sept. 21, 1917 to Nov. 5, 1918. Trans, to Co. B., 141st M. G. B. until Dec. 
22, 1918. Attached for special duty in the first training M. G. B., U. S. Marine Corps. 
Transfered to the first M. G. Unit, Feb. 20, 1919. Transferred to 1st Replacement Depot 
May 14, 1919. Transferred to Pontanezey Casual Depot until Oct. 10, 1919. Sailed for 
overseas July 8, 1918, returned Oct. 18, 1919. Hon. dis., Nov. 6, 1919, Camp Dix, N. J. 
Present address — 23 Highland Road, Andover, Mass. 



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